Originally posted by mika. The "look" is a compression in focus/defocus. It is an image in which you can see several distinct elements or areas of focus/defocus.
I don't know what you mean by the word "compression" here. What is "compressed"? The compression of space is different with different focal lengths (longer = more compressed) -- is that what you're talking about? The fact that you'd tend to use longer lenses with FF?
But we've established than an APS-C photo is just a cropped FF photo, RIGHT? (If some object is 25ft away and I shoot it with on a FF camera at a certain aperture, and then I put that same lens on an APS-C camera and shoot again from the same position with the same aperture, you agree that object will look just the same, right, assuming the object fits into the frame onto both?)
So therefore, in your view, a FF photo that has been cropped to this extent (which of we used to do all the time in the darkroom) can not possibly have the "look", RIGHT? So, in the example below, what's in the red box has the possibility to be "not snapshot" but what's in the blue box can only aspire to be "snapshot", at best? (If you don't like the mountain, substitute anything else.) Because it is cropped? If I took one of your examples above and cropped it, it would instantly lose the look and become snapshot? Is that really what you are saying?