[Leica] Just for fun, now cropping.

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

After 6x6 he used 35mm, I think a Leica SLR. Don't recall seeing any images
from that time.  I do remember the great 35mm image of Georgia O'Keefe and I
think a ranch hand at Ghost Ranch, from a long time ago.  I remember reading
that he dropped the neg in the darkroom and accidentally stepped on it, but
it seems to have worked out OK.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:49 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for fun, now cropping.
> 
> Ansel spend the last 33.3 years of his shooting life cropping rectangles
> from square format negs. A totally common approach.
> Till he met Gretel.
> 
> Some of my main images are verticals cropped from horizontals out of 35mm
> film.
> That's portraits outa landscapes.
> A more uncommon but certainly heard of non approach.
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:14:18 -0500
> > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for fun, now cropping.
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Sounds like the same old crop to me :).  First photographers wrestled
> with
> > the demons of burning and dodging, until now should I use GAF 500 "film"
> in
> > Exposure 2?  And you sometimes still hear "a cropped photo is a ruined
> > photo".  I think that some of the experts would have been better as nuns
> > breaking rulers over the wrists of miscreants, instilling guilt...just
> my
> > take.  I know there is some thought that a photo should be a faithful
> > representation of the scene, but why, unless you are making a
> documentary
> > photo?  What would "Moonrise" have looked like before AA manned up and
> > dunked the bottom half of the neg in chromium intensifier?
> >
> > Ken
> 
> 
> 
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