But if you cropped in the viewfinder, you would not need to spend time and effort to do it later and for every time you print the negative. Do it right to start with and your life will be better.
When I first got my Brownie Hawkeye camera I took a photograph of my brother about to leave on a bus to Philmont NM scout camp. He had a western hat on, backpack under one arm and a traffic pole sticking up behind his head with a "Walk" sign sticking out of one ear and and "Don't Walk" sign...
I agree if the film has not been stored its whole life in a freezer or refrigerator. When I purchase film from a trusted store or website, I check the date and freeze immediately. I have had not problems with color or black & white film, although I was recently informed that Kodak Portra 800...
I suspect that the safe light is fogging the paper. Take out a sheet of paper in the dark and place it on the table. Put a coin on it. Turn on the safe light for 30 seconds. Turn off the safe light and put the paper in the developer for 2 minutes, put in the stop bath for 30 seconds and then...
Composing in the viewfinder is an outgrowth of taking slides; one does not want to have remount slides to individually crop every photograph. Once the good practice has been established, one continues using it and saves work cropping.
Yes, but receiving a package gives an emotional high. If I do not regularly receive packages, I start wondering on the streets in my neighborhood and if a Post Office, UPS, FedEx or DHL truck does not stop at my place, I chase after it barking like mad until it speeds away from me, winded, I...
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Art and Visual Perception, A Psycology of the Creative Eye, The New Version, 50th Anniversary Printing, Rudolf Arnheim, University of California Press Berkley, Los Angeles, London, ISBN-13 478-0-520-24383-5, ISBN-10 0-520-243838
Perception & Imaging, Richard D. Zakia...
HCB was trained in painting and was wedded to strong compositions long before he started taking photographs. He took his background in strong geometric compositions and applied it to his photographic compositions. Cropping his photographs in his mind would destroy the composition that he had...
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