Beginner's question: opinion on cropping

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altair8800
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Re: There is at least as much art in cropping...
In reply to graphikal, 5 months ago

graphikal wrote:

... as there is in framing in-camera. They both involve choosing what to include in the image, and what to exclude. They are in fact pretty much identical exercises of photographic vision, except that in postprocessing one has of course already previously excluded many potential parts of the image from consideration; in that sense cropping is finishing a two-stage framing process.

In many cases, cropping involves MORE art than is possible when framing in-camera. For example, when shooting birds in flight. To think otherwise is to declare that art is constrained by the placement of AF sensors, which is quite obviously false.

Very well said. My longest lens is 800mm. If I can not fill more than a quarter frame with a small bird in a great pose, should I trash it? Get longer lens? If I do not precisely track a fast moving bird, animal or race car, should I trash it? Do not be silly! Full frame birders really have a problem if  Karl does not allow them to crop. Come to think of it, anyone using a 7D always crops!

Dan

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