P.J. that's what it ~used~ to mean. ;-) Don't most newer camera models include a feature to crop now-a-days?
Walter, when you say "crop in camera" this is what most photographers will assume you mean ... i.e. framing the shot as you want it before you click the shutter so that no cropping is necessary. Cropping "in camera" is always a wise idea because you'll be getting the full quality your camera is capable of. As to wishing you had framed your photo differently ... the only solution to the problem is to shoot lots. Try all the angles, get close, step back. Zoom in, zoom out (though I would make the argument that spending a good amount of time with a single focal length lens will do more to help with your framing than anything else). Above all, don't get discouraged. You're new to this. Make lots of frames, learn what you like and what you don't. It's the only way. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- > "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed > moral bankruptcy." > -Woody Allen > > > -- > 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. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ -- 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.
