I was recently reminded of the benefits of cropping while letting Picasa does its face recognition thing on 89,000+ photos/scans. The faces recognition crops of my wife showed an incredible range of expressions over the many years I have know her. Were I to look at the source photos, those expressions would not be as intense and in some cases not even noticeable. I have been happily cropping as needed for the last 6-8 months. Yes, I still try for the optimum in the viewfinder but often enough when I later start looking at the resulting image, I play with cropping.
As Ken recently suggested on my 'Lone Tulip', simple changes can make for a more appealing image. Thank you for providing the link, interesting reading indeed. Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:09 PM To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List Subject: OT Striking a blow for cropping Scroll down in this article and have a look at three famous images before and after cropping to their published form. Amazing, especially the Arnold Newman pair: Picasso and Stravinsky. http://www.drkrishi.com/cropping Admittedly the extreme cases were probably only possible because of being shot with a large format camera to begin with, but whatever. “I crop for the benefit of the pictures. The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.” – W. Eugene Smith. -- -bmw -- 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.
