http://www.wandco.com/35 A small personal design firm Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.wandco.com/35/comment-page-1#comment-24 Roger Whitehouse Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:46:43 +0000 http://www.wandco.com/?p=35#comment-24 Actually, I agree with you. If you are looking at our actual site rather than an RSS feed, you will see this in the extreme in some of the thumbnails we use for our projects. The point I was making here was that for a series of photos illustrating architecture, some of the photos such as Philip Johnson's glass house are so cropped that you are seeing a window detail, and have no sense of the building. That is fine as a teaser to lead you to the whole thing on a website, but a doubtful idea in the way used here. Additionally, having worked designing books with some of the photographers of the stamps, I know they are adamant that their photos retain the original cropping they so carefully considered. Actually, I agree with you. If you are looking at our actual site rather than an RSS feed, you will see this in the extreme in some of the thumbnails we use for our projects. The point I was making here was that for a series of photos illustrating architecture, some of the photos such as Philip Johnson’s glass house are so cropped that you are seeing a window detail, and have no sense of the building. That is fine as a teaser to lead you to the whole thing on a website, but a doubtful idea in the way used here. Additionally, having worked designing books with some of the photographers of the stamps, I know they are adamant that their photos retain the original cropping they so carefully considered.

]]> http://www.wandco.com/35/comment-page-1#comment-21 Mark Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:28:24 +0000 http://www.wandco.com/?p=35#comment-21 I just did a <a href="http://www.focusphotographystudio.com" rel="nofollow">photography site</a> for a friend and ran into this cropping issue in her gallery. The Flash gallery I purchased for her was not flexible enough to expand in height when there was a tall photo, so I had to scale her stuff down to fit the 640 x 440 window. The result was that she lost both interesting details AND drama. Yes, I could include the whole photo, but it was almost pointless. I think there are times when cropping the photo makes sense on a small scale so that people can at least see SOME of the beauty of it. Maybe I'm missing your point... I just did a photography site for a friend and ran into this cropping issue in her gallery. The Flash gallery I purchased for her was not flexible enough to expand in height when there was a tall photo, so I had to scale her stuff down to fit the 640 x 440 window. The result was that she lost both interesting details AND drama. Yes, I could include the whole photo, but it was almost pointless. I think there are times when cropping the photo makes sense on a small scale so that people can at least see SOME of the beauty of it. Maybe I’m missing your point…

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