--- mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > For me, the real tosh comes in when you get the > stories about him never > cropping.
It's probably more accurate to say that he "rarely" cropped or "almost" never cropped. I think he, in his later life, claimed that he never cropped, but that's simply not true. I read an interview by his long-time developer, a fellow by the name of Gassman, IIRC, who said that he did ~on very rare occasions~ crop. Derriere la Gare St Lazare is an example - that's the one of the guy stepping off the ladder into the huge puddle of water, caught when his foot was about an inch from hitting the water. In a magazine, I saw a photo of the original neg, and he clearly cropped, as the whole left side was dark - something you never see in the print. Turns out he was shooting through a fence, and a picket darkened the left side of the frame, so he cut it out, because he had to. As Gassman said, that may have been the exception that proved the rule of "no cropping". cheers, frank, who almost never crops, because that's the way HCB did it, but I'll never ever be that good <vbg> ===== "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
