Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 09:42 AM 9/4/1999 -0400, you wrote: > >Was wondering what y'all think about the habit of including the 'black > >edge'. > I consider making a full-frame image a critical discipline for my Leica photography. My commercial work with Hasselblads, 4x5 and other 35mm systems is subject to the whims and vagaries of art directors and editors. This is not to say that I don't try to compose or frame to limit what these butchers can do. But when I work with my Leicas part of the aesthetic discipline I impose on myself is to compose instinctively, at the moment of exposure. When I edit my photos prior to making prints I reject a large number if they don't work full frame. The black border is a sort of validation or marque of the employment of this approach although I consider it very hokey to have sprocket holes or numbers. A purist sort of proclamation. What I find more frustrating are art directors who PhotoShop in fake black borders with film numbers, etc. after they've done their damage to the original integrity of the image. - -- Carl Socolow http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/