Scanning negs...the Diane Arbus way!

Not my cup of tea! I filed out my negative carrier bunches of years ago so I could print the full oversized negative you get from using non-retrofocus ultra-wides like 19mm Canon or 21mm Super Angulon. They sneak the image beneath the ends of the aperture plate in the camera. You end up getting a negative about 24.5 X 37 or 38mm in size. When the black outline effect became popular I started leaving a bit of clear film showing when I adjusted the four blades of my Saunders easel, which allows for centering the image on the paper with wide white borders if you desire. It results in a nice neat clean black line.

What the wedding shooters call "sloppy borders"? YUCK!
 
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sure PS is easier, but this way's manual ... like my camera.

very cool, thanks for sharing. wish i could do this with my coolscan ...
 
MCTuomey said:
sure PS is easier, but this way's manual ... like my camera.
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Also digital, not like your camera? :D

For a while I liked to print with this kind of "sloppy borders", but I kinda got bored to it. They looked different than this, though. Nice tip for darkroom printing. Better scanners wont eat those holders anyway.
 
The old fashioned way, like Al said:
 

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When you look at a lot of the old school Magnum photographers (Cartier-Bresson and early Costa Manos), they left the edge in to signify that the images were not cropped.
 
interesting technique.....

..... my wife uses "Kubota sloppy border actions"

....i file down my negative carriers, though i use my easel blades for a sharp black border.
 
Many photographers have used a plate in darkroom, to cover the exposed area and then expose black frames around the picture. Some even did this to make it look like it is not framed in the darkroom.
 
sirius said:
When you look at a lot of the old school Magnum photographers (Cartier-Bresson and early Costa Manos), they left the edge in to signify that the images were not cropped.
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Mainly, I suspect, to stop ill-intentioned and visually illiterate art directors cropping them when they were published. I see so other reason for doing it.

Cheers,

R.
 
You might try some matte board as another version. I had a 6x9 Graflex film back that I altered to make a smaller frame using mat board. It gave a very nice edge.

Even having gone to art school I still use this for some images when in the darkroom. Certain pictures crave it.
 
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