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Subject: Re: OT Striking a blow for cropping
I think the no cropping idea became popular when many photographers
were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more
restrictive get it right in the camera stuff.
You didn't crop because you couldn't. So you got it right
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Subject: Re: OT Striking a blow for cropping
I think the no cropping idea became popular when many photographers
were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more
restrictive get it right in the camera stuff.
You didn't crop because you
Ditto. I often shoot wider than what I want, just to be on the safe side
and because the viewfinder does not show 100%.
In a message dated 5/8/2013 7:00:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
pnstenqu...@comcast.net writes:
I crop 60 to 70% of my photos. I frequently shoot with the intention of
I crop more or less 100%. -T
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Walt ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
David Paul took the words right out of my mouth.
I crop my photos with an eye toward potentially printing in a standard
aspect ratio. I do take pains to preserve as much as possible, but I'm far
I think the no cropping idea became popular when many photographers
were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more
restrictive get it right in the camera stuff.
You didn't crop because you couldn't. So you got it right in the camera.
gs
George Sinos
pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT Striking a blow for cropping
I think the no cropping idea became popular when many photographers
were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more
restrictive get it right in the camera stuff.
You didn't crop because you couldn't. So you got it right
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
Which is what the photoshop clone tool is for...
On 5/8/2013 10:02 PM, David Parsons wrote:
If you do any kind of portraiture, you quickly learn to frame loose
and plan on cropping. There's nothing worse than taking a group shot
and realizing that you can't crop it to 8x10.
On Wed, May 8,
It is said that Walker Evans cropped by trimming the negs to the crop he
wanted. Then that was the only way the neg could be printed and still
retain his vision of what the image should be.
-p
On 5/9/2013 8:11 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
35mm and strangely enough 8x10 and larger formats were the
From: George Sinos
I think the no cropping idea became popular when many photographers
were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more
restrictive get it right in the camera stuff.
You didn't crop because you couldn't. So you got it right in the camera.
I wonder how much of it
Even handier: Content Aware Fill. I have increased the image borders
on a number of good shots now just using CAF. Great if you didn't have
a wide enough or high enough backdrop.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Which is what the photoshop clone tool
I think there are really two origins to this idea.
First, Magnum was established as a photographers' cooperative to give the
members control over the way their photos were used, including being able to
impose a condition on publication so that photo editors couldn't ruin a picture
by cropping
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
I crop 60 to 70% of my photos. I frequently shoot with the intention of
cropping at least a small amount. Better to leave a bit too much than a bit too
little.
Paul
On May 8, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
Scroll down in this article and have a look at three
If you do any kind of portraiture, you quickly learn to frame loose
and plan on cropping. There's nothing worse than taking a group shot
and realizing that you can't crop it to 8x10.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I crop 60 to 70% of my photos. I
The author's Kingfisher photos are all rather poor, both cropped and not.
On May 8, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com 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
David Paul took the words right out of my mouth.
I crop my photos with an eye toward potentially printing in a standard
aspect ratio. I do take pains to preserve as much as possible, but I'm
far less concerned about drawing hoots from pixel-peepers than I am
about presenting the shot in its
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