Hello to all,
I had a questions on cropping in tighter on a shot. What is the best way to crop when you get back home and start editing your images. For example, I use photoshop elemets. When I go to crop photo, i get following options: No restrictions, use photo ratio, 2.5 x 2 up to 8 x 12.
What is a good method of doing this
Thanks for help
sam
Depends on your final output. I shoot my kids sports team for fun, and typically crop at 2:3. But, that isn't always the best crop aesthetically. If there is a special shot one of the parents might want, then I'll do something different to fit the situation.
What equipment you used, frame orientation and action captured has a part in this decision as well. In the end its you that has to decide.
I shoot mainly soccer and usually in portrait mode. My work flow is to cull out the obvious throw aways. Select the potentials, bring them into LR and for a first pass at editing apply a 5x7 crop to all. When editing each frame I determine if the crop works, if not try 4x5, 2x3 and finally square. YMMV....
I have 2 work flows depending on what I am shooting for. For my site I use LR and keep everything in the original aspect ratio when cropping. If the customer informs me that they will be interested in 8x10's of certain images, I will create a virtual copy in LR and crop to 8x10...if they inform me after the fact that they would like to see some images as 8x10's or larger, I do the same (virtual copy and then crop to the dimensions). For images that are just going to MaxPreps they obviously get the 1.6x2.166 crop ratio; if I add any of those images to my portfolio on my site for viewing but no sale I will usually just leave them in that ratio unless it absolutely doesn't work in which case I go back to original aspect.
First keep a full size edit, uncropped version. Then crop according to what you may print. My kids I can crop 4x6, because thats all I print. Customers will depend.
I was talking to someone who shoots to sell so he had a specific cropping where it would cutoff the least from 5X7 4X6 and 8X10 prints. Something like 144X2010. Forgot to write it down.
