In camera cropping simply refers to how you frame the photo. You try to
get close enough to the subject, to fill most of the frame and place it
where you'll want it to be in the final print. Sometimes that's
impossible to do, but that's all it means. It requires a bit of
pre-visualization to achieve what you want.
On 10/25/2010 2:01 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
Hi all,
[Insert standard mealy-mouthed plea for forbearance due to
inexperience, acknowledgment of fact that any photographer worth his
salt should know, and insistence that Google was not forthcoming with
satisfactory answers, here.]
I've been doing all of my cropping with software rather than in-camera
since I started taking photos. A fair percentage of the crops I do
are pretty severe. But, it's occurred to me that I may be sacrificing
IQ as a consequence of that tendency, though I don't know. I've
searched for "advantages of in-camera cropping" and other similar key
words, but haven't been able to find any informative material with
high relevancy results. So, I figured I'd ask the Pentaxian Oracles.
I've always just assumed that cropping in-camera does essentially the
same thing as cropping with software in post-processing. Am I right
in that regard? Or, does the camera perform the task better than,
say, IrfanView or some other basic image editor?
My routine (admittedly redundant) has been to pull the HD card and cut
& paste the folder into my "Photography" directory, load them into
Picasa and save the original files (typically JPEG) as the "Picasa
Originals", then go about cropping for composition. I do my best to
avoid cropping any image down to anything less than 2400 pixels
long-side from the original 4288x2848. Once I've done my cropping, I
resize them down to two resolutions -- 2400 pixels long-side for
prints and 1600 pixels long-side for uploading and sharing (if I
intend to do that with any of the images).
Am I screwing up by doing this instead of doing most of my cropping
in-camera, or is it six of one, half-a-dozen of the other?
Thanks in advance for any guidance anyone can offer.
Best,
Walt
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