Book page formats have (next-to) nothing to do with the aspect ratio of the images put on those pages. White Space Is Your Friend™.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >> However, viewing it quickly brought to mind some mild struggles I have >> been having. The recent workshop I attended yielded several shots I >> have been motivated to print, and I have started layout of a Blurb >> book based on that week's shots. The problem I am having is that many >> of my compositions, as seen through the viewfinder and as captured by >> the sensor, and as viewed on my monitor, are just about exactly the >> way I want them. But the format is not an 8x10 nor 11x14 nor 13x17. So >> I need to print with too wide margins top or bottom. Same problem with >> Blurb layouts. Looking at Rick's image, I cannot see how he would be >> able to print the image in any standard format; any cropping on the >> sides would damage/destroy his composition. > > Haven't done anything about it yet, but I've been thinking some about > the same issues. I just crop my images so they look good and when it > comes time to print, I'll print them with the properly-composed crop and > deal with either cutting or whitespace. > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
