"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts." -- Gary Winogrand.

What does this quote mean? Consider the quote in context of our work with framing and composition.

The photographs that I have been working with over the course of learning how to use Photoshop have drastically changed in the way I look at them. As you change what the viewer can see and what they can't, you change what the photograph means! If there is something unnecessary or distracting in your photograph, before it simply meant to take another without it, but now we can go back and crop or feather it, making the distraction disappear! I believe this quote means that as a photographer, you can change what people are seeing. You have all the power of the message YOU want to portray. You can change what others are seeing by cropping things out and editing them, and I think this really relates to what we did today. Our work and what we want to portray is all our own choice, and I think by being able to go back and edit your photograph gives you the power to change a photograph in ways that were previously not available. You can change the color or make something brighter, feather it, or crop it, but it won't have to look deliberate and forced, you can make it look all its own. This quote is showing you that the message your photograph is portraying is all your own, just because people interpret it differently does not mean you have no control. By doing any form of editing, you are making the photograph all your own.