Let's Talk Crop

[Atfulldraw]

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships!" - Ansel Adams

I think cropping might be just fine.
Post Processing? Just fine as well.

I confuse people all the time by interchanging those two terms -- technically, when I say PP I'm including cropping....

and I agree, there's nothing wrong with either.




Russell actually judged and critiqued one of the photo contests a couple of years ago....

Here's the link to that thread.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41331&highlight=russell+crop

[Hillary]

Great Link, Rod.

Cropping, huh?
I find that I did a lot more cropping in the beginning of this DSLR world, now I shoot more to fill the frame, and I notice a lot more now than in the beginning, that I am looking around the frame more when I am composing a shot; instead of just focusing on the subject.

Not too high on my horse though, I do crop, just simply not as much or as often as I did.

Great thread topic, I hope to see more of these in the future. Great info from all.

(eek, I need to print some pictures, I still never have!! ::*******:

[MC70]

Great Link, Rod.

Cropping, huh?
I find that I did a lot more cropping in the beginning of this DSLR world, now I shoot more to fill the frame, and I notice a lot more now than in the beginning, that I am looking around the frame more when I am composing a shot; instead of just focusing on the subject.

Not too high on my horse though, I do crop, just simply not as much or as often as I did.

Great thread topic, I hope to see more of these in the future. Great info from all.

(eek, I need to print some pictures, I still never have!! ::*******:

When I'm shooting for a 'shoot' I always compose (though I always give myself a bit of crop edging, if for no other reason than to get good frame wrap for canvas print), but when I'm shooting from my kayak, or doing 'on-the-draw' nature photography, there simply isn't time to in most instances. I'll typically frame an area, get good composure of the natural elements, then see what appears. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes I get a great shot ruined by the action I was looking for because the scale is all wrong; other times I get a shot that's composed well, but otherwise boring since there's no action.

Out of curiosity, have you all popped over to my photobucket pages?

[Hillary]

I haven't, send the link.
I mostly surf Flickr

[MC70]

Not all the photos are 'artistic', and most of my best ones are from the kayak (it's truly where I love to be and shoot). Thought I had the link on my profile, but I don't. I'll have to fix that. Anyway...

My PhotoBucket Page

[Bluesman]

Not all the photos are 'artistic', and most of my best ones are from the kayak (it's truly where I love to be and shoot). Thought I had the link on my profile, but I don't. I'll have to fix that. Anyway...

My PhotoBucket Page

I don't see any pics in your Photobucket

[MC70]

I don't see any pics in your Photobucket

You have to select an album; look on the left side and you'll see a list of my albums there.

[Bluesman]

No Luck for some reason. I may be having a senior moment!
I found the albums and wanted to check out the kayak stuff but I can't get anything to show.

[MC70]

No Luck for some reason. I may be having a senior moment!
I found the albums and wanted to check out the kayak stuff but I can't get anything to show.

Let me know if you aren't seeing something similar to this:

[MC70]

Ah ha! If you click on 'contact info' after clicking on my ID, you'll see the link to my photobucket page (in addition to some other contact info).

[Russell Graves]

Actually, I don't crop much at all. In fact I rarely crop images as I try to get it as close as I can in the camera. Guys who have been with me (like Shane) can attest to this.

As far as post-processing, I don't do a lot - even in the Pre-Christmas Duck Hunt set I posted.

"...I'd guess exactly none of the images in the pre-christmas duck hunt photos escaped heavy post-processing."

It depends on what you call heavy post-processing as I rarely use Photoshop. On these images, (http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...=pre-christmas) while the color is tweaked, it is just a one-click tweak I did by using the Lightroom Develop module pre-sets. It took all of about six seconds to achieve the look.

Post-processing - yes. But when you shoot in RAW you always have to post-process.

Heavy post-processing? No. I am simply not smart enough nor do I have the patience to spend much time behind a computer.

Ultimately, my take is that I paid a lot of money for the pixels in my cameras so I try and use all of the pixels I can without having to crop them and through them away.

Thanks guys.