[pure-silver] Re: matting square prints
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:02:57 +0100
The optical centers the print on the horizontally and considers the width of
the horizontal borders to place the print on the vertical axis. The wider
the horizontal borders, the higher the print is from the vertical center. If
this is too high or too low on the mount, move the print up or down. The
optical center is a guide to get a good starting point; it is not a law, nor
does it replace good design or taste.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 2/22/05 7:12 PM, "Georges Giralt" <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Shannon !
> I do not use the optical center.
> I just move the image a few millimeters up from the center.
> It shows and breaks the symetrical look the print had. A few millimeters
> are enough. And it looksbetter.
> When printing (or mounting) using the optical center, the print is too
> high in the surroundings. Almost for my taste.
> Have a nice day !
> Shannon Stoney a écrit :
>> This is interesting. I am afraid I could not quite follow your
>> directions for optical center finding, but usually I can sort of
>> eyeball it.
>>
>> Somebody told me once that the reason prints are usually mounted with
>> more space at the bottom, is that prints were formerly often hung
>> salon-style. A lot of prints, therefore, were hung up pretty high,
>> so that the viewer had to look up to see them. If you've ever been
>> to the Barnes collection in Philadelphia, you know what this means:
>> there are paintings from floor to ceiling it seems, on all the walls.
>> Horrible, really. But back in the days when prints were really
>> prints--that is, etchings, lithographs, etc from a printing
>> press--apparently they were often hung this way, and our photographic
>> tradition of calling our work prints, and mounting them with extra
>> space at the bottom, may derive from this. The extra space was needed
>> at the bottom to make the prints look centered, when they were five
>> feet above your head. Now, however, it's a convention, and that's
>> why it looks "funny" if you don't have extra space at the bottom.
>>
>> This is just something I heard and I don't know if it's true.
>>
>> --shannon
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