[Leica] Size Matters

[telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)]

bob palmieri <rpalmier@depaul.edu> wrote:

> Short version: Here are examples of 2 snaps that I shot a few weeks  
> ago.  The duotone/infrared shot seems best realized as a 4 x 6 (5 x 7  
> max) because, to me, it heightens the sense of discovery and doesn't  
> yell out and grab you when stuck up on the wall.  (Also, in this case  
> the grain has appeal for me at a certain absolute size, but it's not  
> really the main thing here...)
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/coba
>
> The color tableau, on the other hand, really needs to be around 2  
> feet wide so someone can peer around in various corners of the  
> image.  Also, the Big Color thing seems more festive or some such thing.

I'll not be able to view these photos until this evening, but I agree in
priciple that some photos demand to be big, and some smaller for exactly
the reasons you've mentioned.

> I'm also debating this size business with 2 other snappers; we may be  
> doing a 3 man show in a few months and one of these guys really feels  
> that each one of us needs to commit to a single size for all of his  
> images to foster more "unity of the individual's vision."

Only if all the photos work at the single size.  For a show you don't want
any of the photos to look out of place, for example:

) one is huge, all the others are tiny.
) one is B&W, all the others are color
) one is square, all the others are panoramas
) one is a landscape, the rest are musicians
) one feels cramped at its printed size, the others don't

There can be MANY reasons a photo can look out of place, conversely they
don't all have to be uniform as long as there's a unifying theme among
them.  I'd have included B&W photos in my book if I had more than one I was
willing to use, likewise (much to my daughter's dismay) I don't have enough
good photos of horses to have worked them into the theme of the book.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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