Often I give what I consider the primary element in a scene a bit of extra space to allow latitude for cropping. Doing so allows me the time to consider the question at my leisure. Jack
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 16, 2015, at 6:21 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Malcolm Smith wrote: > >> David Mann wrote: >> >>> We're cropping reality every time we take a photo. >> >> Mark! >> >> However: this is also a great observation that is often overlooked. Aside >> from choosing the specific image of the area I am in, I now find myself in >> the digital age drawn to cropping from the original I've taken. I often >> wonder if that is because I can, simply due to the large image size, and I >> can take another look at the image (I often leave photos a week or two and >> come back to them fresh in LR or Elements), or I didn't frame the subject >> taken well enough? Maybe both? Or is it simply as I originally suggested, >> because I can? > > I'm of two minds when it comes to cropping: First of all, refusing to > crop when it's obvious that doing so will result in a better final > image is just cutting off your nose to spite your face – it might make > you feel morally superior but it makes you look foolish to everyone > else; but on the other hand I do hate to throw away resolution, which > is an inevitable part of cropping (don't waste precious pixels!) So on > the whole, I crop when I have to and avoid it when I can. > > In more practical terms, though, I feel that cropping should be used > as an educational tool. Whenever I end up cropping an image I kick > myself mentally and analyze *why* I composed the shot the way I did > and what's better about the cropped version. Accumulating this > knowledge over the years has really reduced the number of times I'm > forced to resort to cropping. > > In other words, done right, cropping is a tool that teaches you how to > not need to crop future photos. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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.
