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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    Consider the time, effort and resources involved by your wife put into these paintings and how much of her is in these works of art.
    Photographers should do much the same in terms of investments into their works of art. That 1/2" margin is constrained by the size of the canvas or "Pre-Cropped".

    There is NO post painting cropping of the completed work of art. To do this means discipline of composition and a LOT more.


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    My last wife oil painted Old Master portraits of Punks, took at least 6 months per. Big canvas and lots of layer drying time.

    I made stretchers and some frames. She stretched her own canvas.

    Any frame covered about a 1/2" margin. Marnie was very particular.

    Moving her framed work required removing doors, windows, trucks while she hovered and worried about her babies. Several were stolen from galleries. Teamsters got them back!

    One owned by Cleveland Rock & Roll museum, bought and donated by a famous Punk which paid our home down payment. I miss it from our walls. Long time past...RIP all of them.

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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    I don't.

    But most of the old 5x7 - 8x10 contacts in my archive are 100%

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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    I shoot 4x5. I compose to that aspect ratio and print full frame.

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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    There are painters and there are painters. Many paint from photographs that they took themselves...and they may or may not be decent photographers. My MIL painted us a watercolor from a photograph my (ex)wife took in the SW. She even included the vignetting caused by the lens hood on a wide-angle lens. So it goes.
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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    I use every tool at my disposal to get an image that moves me. That means I sometimes crop. And I edit preexposure, move stuff around when possible so the composition feels right. And not having access to a darkroom, I use digital editing tools to burn, dodge, sharpen scans, etc. I understand that this approach is less pure in some ways, but after fifty years of shooting, I prefer to live with that knowledge and end up with images that please me. It's an interesting discussion, though--learning what others do.
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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    The picture tells me what to do.

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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    Bernice is a consistent and welcome standards bearer for better or worse. I differ, but am just another person. We all are. I stated my unimportant position earlier.

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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bernice Loui View Post
    Painters work within the limits of their canvas, paper or what ever size flat format media they have chosen.

    -Do painters "crop" their work after they have painted it?


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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    Just because painters are bound by a canvas doesn't mean we have to be. Photography is it's own medium. To judge photography rules based solely on painting paradigms seems incredibly limiting.
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    Re: Do you use 100% of a LF negative?

    I'd love to use the whole neg but the glass neg carrier I have for my Saunders 4550 crops in. Annoys me to no end... I am thnking about getting another one and having it machined.

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