[rollei_list] Re: Marvin Wallace and I Disagree

I was brought up by artists. They frequently painted on the rough side of Masonite. From time to time they'd crop a half finished painting with a saw. I remember one large painting that was cropped several times and wound up very small. 
David


Don Williams wrote:

At 07:27 PM 9/24/2008, Marc Small wrote, in part:
Cropped photos are life. I cannot comprehend the sort of anal-retentive mindset which demands that all pictures be printed full-frame. It just does not work that way. Any one who has spent time in a dark room has experienced the process of just HOW to crop a decent negative. A lot of poor pictures produce a great cropped image. 

Marc
I never knew cropping could be such an emotional subject. I never think about it, I just do it, both in the camera and later, as the mood strikes me.
I wonder how all the famous painters of the past decided how to crop their paintings. Was it a result of the size of the canvas they could afford, the dimensions of the wall or ceiling they were working on, the size of frames available (if there were ready-made frames), or what? 

DAW


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