Sloppy & Non-Sloppy Borders

Video Transcript

"And so this is what a print looks like with the black line, it's what's called a "filed-out negative carrier", some people refer to as a "sloppy negative carrier". And in this image, is an image where there is no black line around, and the image was made in a carrier that is not filed-out. Now there's some, this is sort of up to debate, and I kind of feel this way too, that some images work very well with this black line around it, and some images really don't. And that's something that's a personal decision for you to think about. But I find that a lot of landscapes, a lot of more traditional photos, really, they don't need this black line. And actually, the history of this black line is that photo journalists started using it to show that they weren't cropping and that the image was printed exactly the way that they had seen it, and that was how they wanted their images shown, with nothing taken out of it. And it really, there's some days where I think some of my images need the black line and some days I make two versions, one with the black line and one without, and then I decide which one I like better."