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John Kasaian
11-Aug-2013, 13:12
I was sorting though a stack of botched 8x10 negatives---mainly due to processing marks from when my rotary processor decided to go "rogue" on me and it occurred to me that I could salvage a couple or three of them by paring them down to 5x7 or 4x5.
This isn't a great moral question or anything but, would you consider it acceptable to post format size a negative? More important, how should I document it? I figure something like "5x7 negative from 8x10 TMY" or something like that.

Dan Fromm
11-Aug-2013, 13:16
Cropping is cropping. What's wrong with cropping?

h2oman
11-Aug-2013, 13:28
I'm with Dan.

Regular Rod
11-Aug-2013, 13:53
Do whatever is necessary to get the image you want. The result is all that matters.

RR

Graham Patterson
11-Aug-2013, 15:18
It's a 'permanent' crop 8-) You probably won't use the 5x7 or 4x5 proportions in the final rendition anyway.

jp
11-Aug-2013, 15:26
Completely fair.

BrianShaw
11-Aug-2013, 15:41
I'm with WaterMan. And I would document exactly as you suggested.

Harley Goldman
11-Aug-2013, 18:48
Absolutely fair game.

MIke Sherck
11-Aug-2013, 19:09
It's fine.

Mike

Vaughn
11-Aug-2013, 19:36
Just don't put fake rebates around the cropped images...:cool:

David Karp
11-Aug-2013, 20:35
Absolutely fair. I have one very nice panoramic that is really a cropped WP contact print. The light trap was bad and there is some ogging at the top of the neg, but the rest is fine. I have another vertical that is a bit skinnier than the typical WP print, caused by the same problem. Just do it!

Jim Galli
11-Aug-2013, 21:23
John! I'm appalled! How can you even sleep at night after spewing such blasphemy!! Get a grip, man.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/29Roadster/Summer2013/SymmarS.jpg
35mm crop from an 8X10 negative

Yes, that was all I could salvage :cool:

Now, if I'd used photo shop to make myself look skinny, that would be a foul.

Otto Seaman
11-Aug-2013, 21:54
Photoshop would be an even better solution.

Doremus Scudder
13-Aug-2013, 18:41
Cropping is cropping. What's wrong with cropping?

+1

Drew Wiley
14-Aug-2013, 08:27
Just get a film stretcher, then you can both change the format and look slimmer.