In a message dated 3/4/2001 12:21:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Many photographers crop; a few photographers
crop effectively; many good photographers who would otherwise prefer not to
have their workk cropped have to put up with having it cropped by art
directors, editors, or clients; and I wouldn't argue anyone out of the
practice of cropping if that's what they've chosen to do. >>
If you shoot models, covers as in Sports Illustrated, or even furniture,
nearly any image you turn in must be cropped and precisely composed in the
viewfinder, the photographer being acutely aware that headers, inside story
banners, other required data like bar codes-etc. will need room on the cover
without detracting form the cover's subject/topic. Magazine design shooting
is taught then learned, most times the hard way.
*Showing your book to an ad agency without understanding what they want and
need will get you shoved out the back door.
Whether we like it or not, the dictates of the end-user takes precedent over
what ~we~ want or would like to do with an image.
Medium format, especially 6 x7 and 6 x 9 formats, are huge favorites of those
who shoot for covers, because the final image can be set to the top or bottom
leaving lots of (blue sky) room for the print stuph.
Mafud
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