Paul
On Dec 4, 2004, at 1:44 AM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
Sorry I've been so quie^H^H^H^Habsent lately. I've not been feeling well enough to keep all the usual balls in the air, and PDML is one that got dropped for a while. (Once or twice a day I eyeball the subject lines quickly...)
Last night a flash jumped off the top of my Program Plus. It took the flash shoe with it. This is not a danger I knew to expect -- a body shedding its shoe and dumping the flash on the ground. I'm not get certain how easy it'll be to reattach the shoe. (I'll probably return to being a lot more upset about this when I stop being so acutely shocked about the non-photo-related bad news I got tonight.)
I got to thinking about this process and the problem with it:
1) Get asked to shoot a portrait. 2) Pick a location. 3) Compose in the viewfinder and shoot. 4) Go back to subject with a contact sheet full of shots composed for the 24x36 frame. 5) Have subject choose frames to print. 6) Mention to subject that both 5x7 and 8x10 will involve cropping from the 2:3 aspect ratio she's been looking at. 7) Realize that when I was looking at the viewfinder a week or two earlier I should have been composing for 5x7 and 8x10 instead of 4x6/8x12/etc.
I dunno, the idea of shooting 5x7 or 8x10 in the first place sounds more and more tempting. But short of a complete format change, I'm going to have to come up with some tricks to help me remember to plan for cropping when I shoot portraits.
-- Glenn
