Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: KC Corners
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 18:19:51 -0500

On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com>wrote:


>PESO:

>The actual title is Trains and Boats and Clotheslines and it's another one
>that would make a good jig saw puzzle.

>My question is about the Kodachrome corners.  All of my KC slides have
>rounded black corners from the old KC cardboard mounts.  I usually clone
>those corners out but then I wondered why.  They are there and maybe part
>of the photo.

>What do you think?

>http://www.pbase.com/image/166121788 <http://www.pbase.com/image/166121788>

>Tina
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I'd clone the corners to be square.

But I don't see that as the main problem here.  (To me, the image looks
terribly washed-out and it seems everything is either orange or green.
Even the shadows are green.  Images from other posters (for instance
Nathan's) don't have these characteristics.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


Replies: Reply from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: KC Corners)
Reply from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: KC Corners)