Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/28

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Subject: [Leica] Just for fun, now cropping.
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:49:23 -0400

Ansel spend the last 33.3 years of his shooting life cropping rectangles
from square format negs. A totally common approach.
Till he met Gretel.

Some of my main images are verticals cropped from horizontals out of 35mm
film.
That's portraits outa landscapes.
A more uncommon but certainly heard of non approach.

Mark William Rabiner



> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:14:18 -0500
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for fun, now cropping.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Sounds like the same old crop to me :).  First photographers wrestled with
> the demons of burning and dodging, until now should I use GAF 500 "film" in
> Exposure 2?  And you sometimes still hear "a cropped photo is a ruined
> photo".  I think that some of the experts would have been better as nuns
> breaking rulers over the wrists of miscreants, instilling guilt...just my
> take.  I know there is some thought that a photo should be a faithful
> representation of the scene, but why, unless you are making a documentary
> photo?  What would "Moonrise" have looked like before AA manned up and
> dunked the bottom half of the neg in chromium intensifier?
> 
> Ken




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