When shooting film I absolutely was much more prone to composing in the camera. I now tend to give myself a bit of discretionary cropping latitude surrounding my target element.
Jack --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: zoom or crop? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 12:59 PM > Compose in the camera, or in the > darkroom? > > Most of my time doing photography, when I had access to a > darkroom, my only glass was a 58/1.4 and a 2x tele > converter. As a result I did a lot of "zooming", > recropping and recomposing in the darkroom, and I've noticed > that those habits carry forward a lot today. I'm very > comfortable shooting with a prime, or if I have a zoom, > shooting a bit wider than optimal, and doing my final > recomposition in post processing. > > I'm curious if other people who had a limited choice of > focal lengths as they learned photography share this trait. > > On the contrary, I'd guess that people who learned > photography either shooting slides, or without access to a > darkroom (or post processing software) are a lot more > finicky about composing in the camera. > > Or it could be that I'm just lazy when I know that if I > blow it I can just fix it later. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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.
