Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think he had a point; I learned that forgers copy signatures while they are upside down to keep their own 'hand' bias from interfering with the copy. When I took drawing lessons, we viewed them sideways and upside down to see it they had 'balance', and if you do chiaroscuro, it shows if you get the direction of the light wrong very quickly! dwpost@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: Alan Hull <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo editing Från: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net> > > Picking a good picture off a contact sheet is the easy part. > So easy in fact that HC-B edited his contacts while they were turned upside down. His excuse for doing it that way was to look for form without the distraction of content. But I think it was because he envied the GG of the view camera and being French he liked to do things backward. Alan Hull