[Leica] Re: Size Matters (telyt@earthlink.net)

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Doug Her wrote:
(in response to my statement - )
>
>> I'm also debating this size business with 2 other snappers; we may be
>> doing a 3 man show in a few months and one of these guys really feels
>> that each one of us needs to commit to a single size for all of his
>> images to foster more "unity of the individual's vision."
>


> Only if all the photos work at the single size.  For a show you  
> don't want
> any of the photos to look out of place, for example:
>
> ) one is huge, all the others are tiny.
> ) one is B&W, all the others are color
> ) one is square, all the others are panoramas
> ) one is a landscape, the rest are musicians
> ) one feels cramped at its printed size, the others don't
>
> There can be MANY reasons a photo can look out of place, conversely  
> they
> don't all have to be uniform as long as there's a unifying theme among
> them.  I'd have included B&W photos in my book if I had more than  
> one I was
> willing to use, likewise (much to my daughter's dismay) I don't  
> have enough
> good photos of horses to have worked them into the theme of the book.
>

Doug -

You've spelled out a very comprehensive yet concise way of viewing  
this issue, especially in the first sentence of your last paragraph.

Bob Palmieri