[alt-photo] Re: bottom-weighting mats

[clay at clayharmon.com]

FWIW, I mostly bottom weight my mats, except for really long horizontally oriented panoramas. A little bit of bottom weighting goes a long way for panoramas. I either center them or add just a slight amount of bottom weighting.

Clay
On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Christina Anderson wrote:

> Wow, what a great URL! Thanks Diana, John, Francesco. So far 3 for (+ me) no against. Hmmm...
> Christina Z. Anderson
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> On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:41 AM, John Brewer wrote:
> 
>> I almost always bottom weight my mats and use a method similar to this
>> http://www.russellcottrell.com/photo/centering.htm
>> 
>> John.
>> 
>> On 30 November 2011 16:07, Christina Anderson <zphoto at montana.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> How many of you bottom weight your mats and if so by how much? I have been
>>> told that contemporary work has abandoned that practice, but uses mats of
>>> equal size all the way around. Short of bringing a tape measure with me to
>>> galleries, input on both sides of this issue much appreciated.
>>> Christina Z. Anderson
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