It's always best to use most of the frame. When I was learning photography, 40 years ago or so, I had just four primes, a 35, 50, 135, and 200. I soon realized that even when I had my wider primes mounted, I was better off moving closer or mountint a different lens rather than cropping. You crop to perfect the composition, not to extend the focal length. Fill that frame!
Paul On Aug 1, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > Compose in the camera, or in the darkroom? > > Most of my time doing photography, when I had access to a darkroom, my only > glass was a 58/1.4 and a 2x tele converter. As a result I did a lot of > "zooming", recropping and recomposing in the darkroom, and I've noticed that > those habits carry forward a lot today. I'm very comfortable shooting with a > prime, or if I have a zoom, shooting a bit wider than optimal, and doing my > final recomposition in post processing. > > I'm curious if other people who had a limited choice of focal lengths as they > learned photography share this trait. > > On the contrary, I'd guess that people who learned photography either > shooting slides, or without access to a darkroom (or post processing > software) are a lot more finicky about composing in the camera. > > Or it could be that I'm just lazy when I know that if I blow it I can just > fix it later. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
