artd wrote:
I would like to comment that if you crop only if you \"did wrong\" then that implies that you are satisfied to always stick with your DSLR\'s native 3:2 aspect ratio. And that\'s perfectly fine. But many photographers do not like to limit themselves to composing images in just 3:2. Just because a photographer crops their image doesn\'t necessarily mean they did anything wrong. It could simply be that their selected composition needs a different ratio.
Secondly, when shooting for clients a lot of times they are the ones who want to do the cropping. So I always try to give them images with as many pixels as possible. It\'s not an uncommon occurence for a graphic designer to take your perfectly composed photograph and then crop away half or more of it because they only want a piece of it in their layout. And if they put it in a layout for something that needs to be printed big and that tiny piece of an image gets pixelated when it\'s blown up, do you think the client will have a poor impression of a the graphic designer, or a poor impression of the photographer?
There are so many reasons one may want to crop that have nothing to do with poor technique, it\'s quite ludicrous we are even arguing about this with Ralph. He has clearly attained camera nirvana with the 5D II I\'m happy for him, but let\'s not get into silly arguments trying to justify our wants to him, it\'s pointless.
Dec 07, 2011 at 04:52 PM
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