35mm and strangely enough 8x10 and larger formats were the impetus for
the no cropping movement in photography, 35mm because quality really
began to suffer, when cropping, due to it's limited real estate and
really extreme magnification at viewable sizes. Large formats were
usually printed as contact prints, (enlargers that could enlarge 8x10
film captures were extremely expensive and required not just a darkroom
but a dedicated room where they were often built in to the building),
and cropping would have to be done with a paper cutter, and really if
you're shooting an 8x10, (or larger), view camera it's not like you
don't have plenty of time to get the composition right with the camera.
Press camera photographers, using formats in between expected to crop.
16-18 mp sensors in cameras have brought that kind of cropping latitude
to very small formats, especially so if you don't expect to print larger
than 8x10 or simply display on the web.
On 5/8/2013 8:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
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.
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