Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feliciano di Giorgio wrote: > > Recently I was flipping through one of HCB's books and the thing that I > couldn't get over was how precise his compositions at the edge of frame > was. Many of these shots were done with a LTM Leica, which does not have > parallax compensation like the M. Everything was dead on and it didn't > make a difference if it was a close-up or a wide shot and the man > printed the edge of the frame to prove that he hadn't cropped the shot > to tweak the composition. I wonder of he used an external viewfinder or > shot straight through the standard eyepiece. Either way it's pretty darn > impressive. There may be some stuff printed full frame, but much of HCB's work was cropped significantly. One of the magazines printed some of his contact sheets a few years ago with the crops marked for the printer. - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, NY 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html