From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 12/22/02-11:03:39 AM Z
Cutting a circular mat isn't too hard, with the right tools. Anyone have a source for a circular frame? Seems like I have seen some at Kmart once upon a time.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jeffrey D. Mathias" <jeffrey.d.mathias@att.net>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:09:00 -0500
>S Wang wrote:
>> ... Check this out. ...
>
>Sam and Kerik,
>
>You both have images showing an excellent ability to format the image
>well in a circle. My question goes to subsequent presentation. It
>seems that once the circle is placed into a square or rectangular frame
>that some influence of the corners will tend to alter the interpretation
>of the round image. Have either of you considered how to present the
>circle without this corner influence?
>
>This may be more of a question than is at first apparent. I recall
>Frederick Sommer talking about the critical importance of corners to an
>image. This is not to say your images do not work without corners, for
>I feel that they very successfully do. But rather, because of this
>demanding influence of corners, there seems to be a need to isolate the
>circle from unintended corners. I believe that this may become
>noticeable if a circular image is compared framed round or square. Have
>either of you investigated this?
>
>The size of the circle also seems to have some significance in that a
>smaller circle seems to need more isolation and at some point a large
>circle becomes independent of outside influence.
>
>--
>Jeffrey D. Mathias
>http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
>
>
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