Digital BW, The Print

C. David,

Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. You may very well be right, as the
contest talks about a slide show. I think, however, what you may have
done is give Dave a convenient way out, without having him take the time
and energy to explain for himself.

Andrew


On 8/4/2009, "C D Tobie" <CDTobie@...> wrote:

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>On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Andrew Sharpe wrote:
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>> The submission guidelines includes this statement: "Only horizontal
>> (landscape) orientation photographs are accepted".
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>> What an odd requirement! Many of my photographs are in portrait and
>> square format. Is the format such an important consideration to
>> *disallow* anything but landscape?
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>> Please explain this strange restriction.
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>I believe this is a less-than-creative method of assuring continuity
>between slides in a slideshow. As odd as such a restriction seems, I
>recently was teaching at a major workshop, where a big name instructor
>proclaimed to the students that images should always be shot in
>landscape mode: that was how people see, that is how TV and movies are
>shot, and it was how still photos should be shot. Had I not been a
>guest speaker in his class, I might have pointed out that books and
>magazines don't follow that rule, portraits don't follow that rule,
>and that such restrictions might make his life simpler (especially in
>assembling a student slideshow), but they would make my photography
>much less dynamic and creative. If a static frame for a slideshow is
>needed, and if the person determining it is biased towards landscape
>instead of neutral or vertical orientations, then I usually suggest
>matting all slides on a black background on the required size,
>proportion, and orientation, instead of proclaiming that the world is
>flat.
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>C. David Tobie
>Global Product Technology Manager
>Digital Imaging & Home Theater
>CDTobie@...
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