Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 28, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Ansel spend the last 33.3 years of his shooting life cropping > rectangles > from square format negs. A totally common approach. > Till he met Gretel. > > Some of my main images are verticals cropped from horizontals out of > 35mm > film. > That's portraits outa landscapes. > A more uncommon but certainly heard of non approach. :-) you know, all this about cropping is a bit like looking at the hole instead of the donut, a not unreasonable analogy, Steve > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:14:18 -0500 >> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for fun, now cropping. >> >> Steve, >> >> Sounds like the same old crop to me :). First photographers >> wrestled with >> the demons of burning and dodging, until now should I use GAF 500 >> "film" in >> Exposure 2? And you sometimes still hear "a cropped photo is a >> ruined >> photo". I think that some of the experts would have been better as >> nuns >> breaking rulers over the wrists of miscreants, instilling >> guilt...just my >> take. I know there is some thought that a photo should be a faithful >> representation of the scene, but why, unless you are making a >> documentary >> photo? What would "Moonrise" have looked like before AA manned up >> and >> dunked the bottom half of the neg in chromium intensifier? >> >> Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information