Shooting for the Crop
Sep 15, 2018 07:06:25 #
Who says there's no such thing as coincidence? We had a question yesterday about shooting for the crop - what to do about shooting with a crop camera and cropping. I came across an article from Digital Photography School last night that covered just that topic. Go to their site and do a search for the title of this post, and you'll find it.
Sep 15, 2018 08:21:25 #
The article has nothing to do with a crop sensor camera and everything to do with composing for an end goal of a specific aspect ratio, such as for an 8x10 print.
With your sensor set to 3:2 aspect ratio, you can only print the full image at 8x12 (and other sizes with that 3:2 same ratio). This can be a difficult concept for new folks to understand.
So it's a good article in that regard.
With many (most?) cameras you can change the aspect ratio, if you desire. My Panasonic G7 uses all its pixels at 4:3, but I've always like to compose landscapes at or near 3:2, so that is how I set the camera when I purchased last year. I don't miss the loss of those extra few pixels at all
With your sensor set to 3:2 aspect ratio, you can only print the full image at 8x12 (and other sizes with that 3:2 same ratio). This can be a difficult concept for new folks to understand.
So it's a good article in that regard.
With many (most?) cameras you can change the aspect ratio, if you desire. My Panasonic G7 uses all its pixels at 4:3, but I've always like to compose landscapes at or near 3:2, so that is how I set the camera when I purchased last year. I don't miss the loss of those extra few pixels at all
Sep 16, 2018 08:23:50 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
The article has nothing to do with a b crop senso... (show quote)
Right! The question yesterday was about both using a crop camera and allowing room for cropping later. The OP thought he might have to compose differently when using a crop camera.
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