Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, A couple of weeks ago, I bought a used Leica M, made a WEB site for photography, bought a scanner, did some tests. started a paw - only one image for now but have material for past 4 weeks, have been printing some 8 x 10s on an inkjet printer, bought another book on PhotoShop, made a portfolio of old images from Thai-Cambodia border, joined LUG, and have been spending hours digging through boxes in the garage and classifying slides and negatives going back to high school in the 50's. With that for an introduction, my question has to do with cropping. The guy at Keeble & Shuchat who sold me the Leica showed me some nice BW prints from his trip to Cuba - all of which are full frame. I've hardly ever printed pictures full frame. 8 x 10 speed easels didn't seem to match 35x24 mm or 2 1/4 square negatives years ago. But then I've almost never cropped any slides. (Let's see. Make a 'L' with thumb and forefinger and hold in front of the projector to get rid of that annoyance on the lower left of this next picture...). Habitually, do you crop images when printing them? Dave Hillman http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/index.html