Findus Posted July 1, 2006 Share #1 Posted July 1, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) After my 50mm useage question, I have a follow-up, do you crop your photographs, either digital-, or wet development process ? If not; what is your reasoning for this If yes; what makes you decide to crop, and do you use specific photographic rules for this ? Does cropping generally enhance the purpose of photography ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 1, 2006 Posted July 1, 2006 Hi Findus, Take a look here Do you Crop ?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stunsworth Posted July 1, 2006 Share #2 Posted July 1, 2006 Yes I crop to improve the composition. Not everything fits into a rigid 3x2 view of the world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 1, 2006 Share #3 Posted July 1, 2006 Sure do! but due to the lack of rain I may not get a crop in at all this season..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm1912 Posted July 1, 2006 Share #4 Posted July 1, 2006 I definitely do (in the darkroom -- no digital camera), for purely compositional reasons that were not possible to achieve when I took the photo. In my case, being the amateur that I am, it is usually to get rid of clutter in the margins of the photo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Findus Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share #5 Posted July 1, 2006 OK might of phrased the question wrong, I crop too, minimally but I do at times. But I allways try and look for the perfect in frame composure upon taking the photograph, I personally find uncropped 50mm (the only lenght I shoot) gives the most satisfactory results, often crop look unnatural, but this is very subjective .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest menze_as Posted July 1, 2006 Share #6 Posted July 1, 2006 I always try not to crop - and I definitely do not crop out of size 3:2 or 6x6. Photographing to me is to compose a scene through the viewfinder before making the picture. It is like painting: a painter wouldn't paint a picture and then cut off parts of the linen. One only learns to compose a picture if he is limited to the sizes - that's my opinion to that. Greetings, Astrid Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted July 1, 2006 Share #7 Posted July 1, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Astrid, but then again a painter wouldn't always paint using the same sized canvas ;-) Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest menze_as Posted July 1, 2006 Share #8 Posted July 1, 2006 some do, some don't ... but anyway they know before beginning, how they are going to fill the canvas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted July 1, 2006 Share #9 Posted July 1, 2006 Of course. 1. To improve composition - generally by "tightening up", or by correcting my habitual 1.5 degree lean to the right. 2. To "find" other images within the one I have taken. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm1912 Posted July 1, 2006 Share #10 Posted July 1, 2006 A painter, however, might not paint on the whole of the canvas. So far, at least, I find that the only times I do crop are on architectural shots when I was physically unable to get the composition I wanted when I took the photograph. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
george + Posted July 1, 2006 Share #11 Posted July 1, 2006 Yes. I did in the darkroom and I do on the computer. Why? To get the results I want. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted July 1, 2006 Share #12 Posted July 1, 2006 If I see an image in the world before me, I perceive it as a total composition which includes boundaries. Those boundaries frequently assume different dimensions. My range of cameras, whilst varied, often don't exactly match the subject proportinally. In such cases, either I compromise the perceived subject shape, or use the camera to 'best fit' the picture and crop afterwards to regain the perceived image. Cropping in the camera, by the above theory, is a compromise. Cropping in the darkroom or on the computer allows retention of image integrity as perceived. This all assumes that the photographer decides the composition rather than the equipment. Just another POV. Cheers, Erl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted July 1, 2006 Share #13 Posted July 1, 2006 Do you Crop? Yes i do but i prefer the 'Scale' tool of Photoshop Elements generally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phybron Posted July 1, 2006 Share #14 Posted July 1, 2006 I crop when I have to for compositional reasons, but more often to get different size ratios for prints on deviantART. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted July 1, 2006 Share #15 Posted July 1, 2006 Yes, and why not? I know HCB supposedly didn't, byt then he didn't do anything after rewinding the exposed film. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
square_one Posted July 1, 2006 Share #16 Posted July 1, 2006 Sure - because you can in the required enlargement process. You want the true challenge of unforgiving croplessness? Do large format contact prints. On HCB: Yeah. I understand he left the developing and printing to others, and his standing orders were probably to print full-frame, but I'll bet that more than once he leaned over the shoulder of his favorite printer-person and said, "Maybe we just take out zat telephone pole along zee right edge." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted July 1, 2006 Share #17 Posted July 1, 2006 80% no..I prefer a natural framing of my lens, when printing ( from the enlarger to the easel) the usual 10mm framing lines on the photo or full frame. 20% because : 1) it was impossible to frame the image correctly at the time 2) I was simply not paying attention to the framing 3) salvage the good part of a " once in a lifetime shot Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n Posted July 1, 2006 Share #18 Posted July 1, 2006 What George said. Yes and for the same reason. To get the result I want. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted July 1, 2006 Share #19 Posted July 1, 2006 Whilst cropping can be the last refuge of the scoundrel - 'if you crop enough, you'll find a good picture in there somewhere..' or 'get in close - it'll make a good alternative to having to worry about composition..' in reality cropping is as valid a post production technique as any other (eg printing on a certain paper, or printing a litytle darker or lighter for effect) and is as valid a form of artistic interpretation, too. It's the final picture as offered, not as shot, that counts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan States Posted July 1, 2006 Share #20 Posted July 1, 2006 You are on the east bank of the Mississippi. You are carrying your m6 and 35mm lens. On the other side you spy Elvis and Hitler, each naked, sunbathing. Elvis is rubbing sun lotion on Amelia Earhart's back. Do you shoot and crop or pass on the photo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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