> Back before I went digital, I had a "no crop" policy - or to > be more precise, I would only "crop in the viewfinder". With > digital I crop liberally, and I've softened my views wrt > cropping film negatives, but I still won't crop any > rangefinder photos - that will (I expect) continue when I get > my M9 (I figure maybe I'll get a used one about the time the > M14 comes out...). > > There's no rationality to my cropping policy (that way I > don't have to explain why), it's just what it is. > > ;-)
My policy has also changed since I went digital, expect that it's Lightroom that changed the policy for. I now allow myself to crop under 1 or 2 conditions: 1. I thought of it at the time of the exposure 2. The actual exposure doesn't match the framing (because the M8 rangefinder is optimised for only 3') When I do crop I only use established frame ratios, such as 1x1, 2x3, 1x2, 3x4, golden rectangle. It's irrational, but so is the golden mean. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
