Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 9/6/00 9:28 pm, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu wrote: > Bernard jotted down the following: > >> Johnny Deadpan wrote: >> >>> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/humantraffic/portfolio_15 >> >> 1 I would really like it if the top and the bottom were chopped off. I >> know, >> I know... you won't do it, you like it the way it is. I know. But for me, the >> info is in the middle, and the heads of the real guys would flow nicely into >> the >> poster-head. The rest of the pic contributes nothing except space. And I find >> that that space doesn't contribute anything. So it's a keeper, but only if I >> could have my way with it. Yeah well.... <smiley> > > I looked at the pictures too, before having read Bernard's comments, and > felt that there was something odd about 001.jpg which I couldn't put my > finger on. I think Bernard's right on this. > > I know this is very naughty, but I downloaded the image, cropped it to > 2.35:1 aspect ration (same as Cinemascope) and I think that it works better. > Check it out at: http://164.107.149.169/235.htm Not naughty at all. I positively encourage reframing of my pix! I have yet to see one I prefer but this might be it. For me this is the weakest picture in the set and it probably would look better as a landscape. Problem is it's a thin neg and was developed in 1:3 Xtol and it has a hard time staying together at its current size. I think cropped and enlarged more the neg is just going to fall apart with grain, but I might be wrong. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk