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Creative Cropping Photo Techniques in a 1930's Popular Fan MagazineA Study of Inventive Photo Retouching on Boy's Cinema |
Eighty years ago, an English company called Amalgamated Press published a movie fan magazine called Boy's Cinema. An unidentified staff editor on the Boy's Cinema staff used some wildly inventive photo retouching techniques with both paint and knife. On this page, I analyze what I call Creative Cropping (CC) -- taking the familiar photographic rectangle and chiseling away at it like a sculptor chips away on a block of stone. My intention is to learn how to adapt the CC technique to my own work.,
Consider this example:
| As Original | Original with Cropping Outline | Cropping Outline without Original |
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| Blue=Presumed Rectangle before Cropping, Red=Cropped | ||
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| Blue=Presumed Rectangle before Cropping, Red=Cropped | ||
Other techniques used in Boy's Cinema include familiar edging and outlining techniques in white and black.
Four annual compilations of the magazine are available at the public domain website www.archive.org: