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Re: esoteric question
All photo images are round on exiting a lens, only going rectangular depending
on how they are clipped by the film, vignetting, etc. So the reason a Hobo does
round images is because the lens used, or its placement relative to the film,
doesn't cover 8x10.
I was talking about a newspaper front page only, which is more analogous to
viewing a print than is any consideration of how the two page internals are
handled, which, as you say, are analogous to book design.
Pam
Darryl Baird wrote:
> ...
> BTW, the golden mean (section) doesn't mean thirds? It is a system of
> proportion, based on a mathematical formula (based again on a pentagon)
> which divides a given line into extreme and minor means (or sections).
> While this may look like a two-thirds to one-third system, it isn't. It
> also doesn't take into account square images (or circular ones like the
> Hobo camera of Gordon Mark). I would say force lines, visual center,
> borders, and the actual frame's shape have as much to do with the
> composition as any mathematical rule. I looked this one up,
> algebraically it is a:b = b:(a+b). Ouch, my brain hurts!
>
> To answer Pam's question, the pages which face left, place areas of
> importance closer to that edge and right hand pages are vice versa.
> Seldom are images of people used which look "off" the page, but rather
> towards the gutter, thus containing the "viewing". This is a principle
> of book page design and books (or newspapers) have left and right hand
> pages. Each must contend with each other as they face each other.
>
> --
> Darryl Baird
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