Pixby wrote:

Sometime amount the era I began to use 35mm cameras, I developed a
framing habit so as not to lose any precious resolution when the images
were enlarged. I unconsciously do it now and almost never crop an image
unless it's to accommodate "perfect portrait" size - the 2/3rds thing.

I double booked this weekend and had to engage a contract Photographer
for the 'other' shoot. I've just been going through his work ready to
start printing and discovered a lot of his shots need cropping. Nothing
wrong with his photography, just the fact he leaves lots of room in the
image.

How many other people make cropping a normal event when editing? Just
curious.

Personally, I like to minimize cropping. But for some things, like tiny
birds far away or whatever, it's unavoidable. It'd be nice to have the
glass to shoot them, but I don't, and so I shoot RAW and upsample the
image during conversion. Then I crop what I need to. This gives much
better results than enlarging a cropped image, especially if the
original image was a JPEG.