Digital BW, The Print

Mark wrote:
> Yes, yes. I'm shooting a three-day job this coming week, and the
> PDFs of the layouts that arrived showed an e6-like black border
> around the photographs, but with the name of the client stripped
> into the black borders, where the normal "Kodak" or "Ilford" and
> frame numbers would normally be!

Yep, that's the stuff that drives me nuts... that and drop shadows on every
single little thing. Not everything can be an absolut vodka ad I guess, but
I think they should strive for that originality.

> I almost turned down the job, based on that alone! The Design
> Police should pay a call to the designer that comped that up.

Being both designer and photog (amature as I am) I am probably much too
pickey when looking thru magazines etc but there really seems to be a lack
of originality lately. Mind you when you see something original it does get
you, but then it's copied until it is done to death... like the above.

> With this fresh on my mind, maybe that's why I'm so hard on
> Bernie with this issue.

It seems to me that photographers would want personal, unique additions to
their images... or none at all.  In my photo-illustrations  I use my own
stuff, textures etc, nothing canned, or filtered... no clip art. I can't
stand clip art.  It's just a personal thing.

Carolyn