[rollei_list] Re: S2 format

The Rolleiflex TLR was not made square to force us to take square pictures.
There is nothing wrong with cropping photographs either with an enlarger or
a blade.  The eye of the viewer can only see the finished product. And there
is nothing wrong with using more than one camera.  Even for fine art.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Marvin Wallace <Marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  For one with an experienced eye it is quite easy to spot a body of work
> on display, which is done with different cameras, as the subtle aspects of
> the photographs which bind the collection together are not unified. The
> worst thing to do in my opinion is to try to edit the ratio of the
> photograph's either with the enlarger of a knife.
>
> If you prefer to work with images one at a time, that's good for you.
>
> I do tend to think in terms of large bodies of photographs and how they
> will fit together, but I'm not a commercial photographer I am coming from a
> fine art background.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marvin.
>
>
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>
> I try to take each picture one at a time.  I had a bunch of stuff on a wall
> recently, and I was pleased with myself for having matching frames and
> matting. But they were all basically 16x20 cut to either 4:5 or 2:3, and
> frankly, it was a little boring. I want to do 20X24 based prints, but I
> think I should probably start making 11x14's again too.  I will continue to
> try to make each picture look as good as I can, regardless of which camera
> I'm using, and let the catalog take care of itself
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Marvin Wallace <Marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Marvin Wallace
> One of the motivations for getting the "correct" ratio, is that if you
> continually change cameras (like me), you end up with a catalogue of work
> that doesn't fit together very well. You perhaps will have beautiful 6 X 6
> portraits and then 2.4 x 3.6 portraits done with a nice lens such as a
> summicron 90.
> Though I have been unable to live up to my own ideal, it is good to use as
> few cameras as possible, so I would argue against the many ratio's are good
> hypothesis.
>
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