Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sam said, among other things: >>I left it there for a number of reasons. The most important was that the other eleven images were all full frame with the black border. SonC pulls out his soapbox, and climbs aboard: That's an editing issue, not necessarily just a cropping issue, but cropping is also an editing issue. Does a "no cropping anytime" stance mean you don't also burn or dodge shots in the darkroom? How about pushing or pulling the film? What about paper types? Contrast filters? What if you just hate the picture for no discernable reason? How much of a purist are you going to be, and where do you draw the line? Reminds me the joke about the girl who would not do "it" for ten dollars, but reconsidered when offered $10,000. Either you are a cropper, or you're not. I personally am real happy to have my Nikon Coolscan. It has enabled me to go back through my transparencies and crop some images that could not have been saved. This is not golf, I don't have to "play the ball where it lies" anymore. This very issue is one of the reasons I turned away from slides for a lot of years, in that I had no control of the final output. If you shoot editorial or commercial work, you might as well crop it yourself before the art director's assistant gets his hands on your shot; with the exception of (most) Photography and Arts magazines, he'll be ruthless. Here's one I think I saved from just being a bad snapshot by cropping. (Maybe now it is simply a good snapshot!) http://www.sonc.com/cowboy.htm Regards. SonC http://www.sonc.com "You can't always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes you might just find you can get what you need." The Stones