Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Schwarzer Zaun
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 16:59:21 -0700

Robert Meier wrote:
> 
> The black line around the image provides something far more important than
> validation that we are looking at the full frame as exposed in the camera:
> that black line can be a very important compositional element, holding
> together the different areas of the image and providing a definite edge for
> light tone areas that bleed to the edge of the print.
> 
> Robert Meier
> Assoc. Professor, English
> The University of Wisconsin-Stout

Like a big light sky so your image doesn't fall off the top. It also mandates
more respect for your cropping/noncropping. Might make them think twice before
mercilessly and/or arbitrarily chopping down your picture to the face in the middle.
Mark Rabiner