[LargeFormat] cropping

[Brock Nanson]

Some interesting replies to this question!  I suspect had I started with LF
instead of 35mm, I'd be more generous with space around the subject.  But I
was indoctrinated with the rules of shooting 35mm transparency... crop it in
the camera the way you want it to be projected!!!  I've carried that
unknowingly into LF and I've fooled myself a few times...

Brock

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Caluori" <pcaluori@hotmail.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] cropping


| From: "Brock Nanson" <brock@nanson.org>
| Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:55:57 -0800
|
| <snip>
|
| Many of you seem to do 8x10 contacts... clearly composition is important
as
| cropping isn't possible this way.
|
| So I'm curious to know how the rest of you shoot large format.  Do you
crop
| in the camera or leave space to do so in the darkroom?
|
| <snip>
| Greetings,
|
| Generally I find I'm croping in the camera, but that's usually
detrimental -
| sometimes I'm a slow learner.:)  This works out well when I shoot 8x10 as
I
| have never enlarged an 8x10, but on smaller formats I forget to calculate
| the negative carrier cutoff.  I'm planning to do some filing, or get a
glass
| carrier, but until then...
|
| Sometimes I do make a conscious decision to seriously crop an image, as in
| shooting full frame with full knowledge that I'll print it as a panoramic.
| I also shoot my 6x6 Hassy will full intent to make an 8x10 (i.e. 6x4.5)
| print, but I also print about 50% of them full frame.  It's really
dependent
| on the image and what moved me to take it in the first place.
|
| Regards, Pete