Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:33:35 +0000 From: <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> Subject: [Leica] More on cropping! Flames afire! >>> > 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! >>> Mike Johnston : 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 Well, if the cropping isn't too extreme (so that the enhanced grain, reduced sharpness from increased enlargement isn't too apparent), why not just create a black edge, so that all the prints have a consistent look? Faking a black line under the enlarger is easy, looks good, saves you from headaches. As Mike noted earlier, look at the black edge of HCB's Gare St.-Lazare photo. The neg is cropped, but the image has a black edge. Amazing what you can do with a piece of matte board! Rob Schneider