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Do you crop your DSLR images?
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. -- Douglas... "You finally make it on the Internet when you get your own personal Troll". Mine's called Chrlz. Don't feed him, he bites! |
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"Pixby" wrote in message ... 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. Always edit in the viwfinder- as far as possible. Yet, being a Pentax user since the 60's, all my perfectly-framed-in-the-viewfinder shots need cropping anyway. ....and I can't bring myself to allow for the Pentax viewfinder, and risk losing a vital element. Nowadays, I guess I use about 4.5 of my 6 Mpix. -- Jeff R. |
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"Pixby" wrote in message
... 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. -- Douglas... "You finally make it on the Internet when you get your own personal Troll". Mine's called Chrlz. Don't feed him, he bites! Generally, I only crop the amount necessary to get the proportions of the paper, i.e. 8x10, 11x14, A3, etc. That being said, sometimes I find that, compositionally, an image works better with additional cropping, and to a point, I'll do that. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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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. Like you, I'm a "frame filler" and most often use the entire shot in print. Having said that, I have no reservations about post cropping out clutter or cropping to enhance presentation. For that matter, cropping out 10% - 20% in a dimension has little effect on the resolution of an 8 x 12 print. I shot 1st Communion portraits for a pro last year and he was very pleased with my framing. He had a pro working for him who usually shot MF (6x6) and who left enormous room around the 35mm shots for the 1st communions. He said that the other fellow was so used to 6x6 and fat framing that he had trouble making tighter framed shots. Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:28:41 GMT, John A. Stovall
wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:06:09 +1000, 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. Always to get the maximum effect I'm looking for in the image and I don't stay with the normal ratios. I do what ever makes the most esthetically pleasing image to me. On thing that is strange is that some people who never liked 6 x 6 in film end up cropping square if the subject is roundish or square. Why have all that "wing space" if it isn't really needed? -Rich |
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In article , Pixby
wrote: How many other people make cropping a normal event when editing? Just curious. I shoot a lot of indoor volleyball. I really don't have time to frame properly and still get the shot unless I'm shooting one particular player and can follow her rather than the play. So cropping is a wonderful capability that digital has made easy. Since most of my work goes to web sites or video, the cropping does not seriously affect quality. |
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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. I sometimes crop completely in the viewfinder, but in a lot of shots, magazine editors want space around the central subject to display heads, captions, whatever they choose. Thus, space is left for what the paying customer wants. Because probably 60-70% of my work is aimed at magazines, that kind of shooting gets to be a habit (but it is more desired with certain types of magazines than others, so the habit can also become a problem). I've found that with full vehicle shots, extra space around the subject is a help. For individual features of the vehicle, tight cropping, often tighter and shaped differently than the sensor, is wanted...but in other cases, filling the frame is fine, leaving final crop to the graphics department. For some kinds of articles, say on woodworking tools, filling the frame at close up ranges is great. Recently, I did a piece on a jointer that uses cutters that are about 3/8" square. I went macro with those, next to a dime, and also did a near macro shot of the entire 8" wide head. The latter was cropped. Worked really well. It differs, in other words, depending on what the customer wants. |
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When taking candid photos of people I usually leave some vacant space around
the subject to allow for movement. Means I usually crop some of the shot afterwards. Toa |
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:06:09 +1000, 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. Maybe this was a question mostly for pros, but anyway, here are my amateur practices: I crop routinely in two different sets of situations. 1) When I know that I won't have the time to frame properly, or when I take a close candid shot without looking into the viewfinder, I go wider than reasonably needed so not to miss anything, and crop afterwards. Maybe very few pros would take candid shots this way, but in my experience a fraction of human subjects - perhaps 10% in total, going up to say 30% in teenage boys - are only possible to photograph in anything that even vaguely resembles a normal likeness if they are not aware that a shot is being taken when it is. 2) When I shoot wildlife, I consistently use cropping, sometimes quite heavy cropping. Regardless of glass, you never get close enough to small, shy birds... Otherwise, I sometimes crop lightly to improve the composition, and occasionlly crop more heavily to rescue one subject in the image if this subject comes out very well, and the other one is blinking or has an otherwise unsuitable facial expression. But of course I always try to frame as competently as I can within the existing time constraints. Jan Böhme Korrekta personuppgifter är att betrakta som journalistik. Felaktigheter utgör naturligtvis skönlitteratur. |
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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. |
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