Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] More on cropping! Flames afire!
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:33:35 +0000

>>>
> Oh, so every photo MUST conform to the  2x3 format? I guess I skipped
that
> day in design class . . .
>
> Bob (go ahead and crop) McEowen

Mark Rabiner: If I don't have it and I have to raise the enlarger up to
get it; I very often
leave the blades on the Saunders easel the way the were. Continuity is
nice! I'm
lazy! Hate to have to put them back where they were again to get my
black
borders. And I love that darn 2x3 format!
>>>

I'm with Mark.

The conundrum: let's say you are going to print a show of, say, 30
photographs. 28 of them work as full-frame 2x3 proportion images, so you
print them that way. Two need cropping, which will change the aspect
ratio.

Do you do it? Make 'em stick out like sore thumbs?

I say that's worse than having a little extraneous image information in
one or two frames. My whole problem with cropping is that if you decide
to do it, you're equally committed to doing it regularly, to retain the
consistency Mark's talking about.

Then again, Bob McEowen knows what he's doing too. To each his own.

- --Mike