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Photography (Advanced) - Advanced manual for photography and other graphic techniques
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be affected by continuity of photographs from page to layout. By knowing layout size and using a thumbnail page or by extending a photograph or title across the sketch to determine relative size, you can determine gutter  (margins  between  pages). the exact size to print the photographs. Photographs for a picture story or picture essay should be edited until only the photographs required to  tell  the  story  remain.  You  must  decide  what number of photographs to use for the story as well as what form of composition to use. Often, the content of the photographs will assist you in making decisions about the compositional form. As discussed previously, the lead photograph in a picture  story  or  essay  should  be  "eye  catching"  and create impact. The lead photograph does not have to be placed in the primary optical area; however, it should be placed in the layout so it sets the theme for the story. Similarly, the end or closing photograph should produce a feeling that the story has ended. After the photographs are selected for story-telling content,  you  should  construct  thumbnail  sketches  to assist in determining the best layout for that particular story. A thumbnail sketch is a rough sketch idea of the  layout.  You  may  have  to  construct  several thumbnail sketches before deciding on the best layout (fig. 1-8). You  should  crop  the  photographs  on  an  easel during printing, and print them to correct size for the When cropping is required after the photograph is printed, you should place a sheet of thin paper over the photograph. Mark the thin paper, rather than the photograph, with crop marks. Crop marks are lines or dashes, in pencil, that indicate where to crop the photograph. SCALING Scaling is the procedure whereby you calculate the size that a photograph is to be reduced or enlarged. The simplest method for scaling your pictures is to use  a  common  diagonal.  Place  a  sheet  of  tracing paper  over  the  picture  being  scaled  and  draw  a diagonal line on the paper over the picture or where the crop marks are indicated. Determine the size of the finished picture along the bottom. Now raise a perpendicular line until it meets the diagonal line; this is the height of the finished picture. When you use the diagonal method of scaling, everything that is in the original print, or indicated within  the  crop  marks,  will  be  in  the  scaled reproduction. Figure  1-8.—Thumbnail  sketch  for  a  double-page  layout. 1-21







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