Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>wrote: >Hi Mark, >As you well know back in the days when newspapers' had a "city editor who quite often was also the "photo editor" whom upon editing the photos for >the latest edition. Used a large pair of scissors' and would say out loud....."2 column!" >And in a flash he chopped "edited the print" to a composition size to fit a 2 column page space. >Most "city editors I have worked with have been "blind in both eyes" when it came to correct & true beautifying a picture page in beauty! Only to chop >the photo to fit a "column size" DESTROYING IN MOST CASES THE "composition" BEAUTY of the photo completely! >cheers, >Dr. ted grant O.C. ================================================================================================================== This reminds me that, a few years back, in a feature on an upcoming Cartier-Bresson show at a local venue, the Milwaukee Journal ran his famous "Picnic on the Marne" photo, and CROPPED IT to fit the space. - Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt