On 24/1/17, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >In theory, filling the frame with exactly what you need and not cropping >will give you the very best image possible. However, with my K-1, even >if I throw away half the area of the image, I'm still left with an 18MP >APS sized chunk of sensor that I can take from any place in the image. > >If I am shooting a landscape, still life, or some other static image, >I'll do my best to frame things exactly. However, if I'm shooting >dancing, martial arts or some other very dynamic scene, I will often >shoot loose and crop tight. It is my experience that I lose far fewer >photos from a slight loss of resolution than I do because just as I >pressed the trigger someone stuck their hand, foot, or even their head >outside of the frame that I'm shooting. > >This may not be true for better photographers than I, but I have found >that very few of my photos cannot be made better by cropping. There is >an initial tendency, to put as many good things as possible into the >picture, however I find that what works best is to take out as much as >possible that isn't great. > >Another advantage of cropping is that it gives you an opportunity to go >back, try different compositions, learn from what works, and in theory >get better at seeing that final composition before you take your next >set of photos. > >So, cropping in post isn't good or bad, it's a tool. Relying on cropping >may not always be the best tool when taking photos, but it may be the >tool you need to get a great photo out of a good exposure.
Really good insight there from Larry - excellent. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- 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.
