Cropping
Aug 31, 2022 17:12:07 #
With metal prints the size does not matter. No frame needed. When I crop it to improve the composition.
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Aug 31, 2022 22:46:27 #
As a default, I set my digital camera view at the 3:2 aspect ratio, too, for similar considerations. The ratio of 4:5 also serves my practice with portrait and landscape subjects. Thank goodness we can easily switch ratios at will with digital photography.
burkphoto wrote:
As an old 35mm slide photographer, I got used to c... (show quote)
Sep 1, 2022 00:32:28 #
anotherview wrote:
As a default, I set my digital camera view at the 3:2 aspect ratio, too, for similar considerations. The ratio of 4:5 also serves my practice with portrait and landscape subjects. Thank goodness we can easily switch ratios at will with digital photography.
In the mass portrait industry, it’s standard practice to install cropping composition masks in camera viewfinders. Ours had guidelines for 7:5, 5:4, 5:2, 3:1 aspect ratios, plus a head box for portraits and head & foot lines for full body portraits.
Sep 1, 2022 00:52:38 #
Architect1776 wrote:
Rules need to be understood, then you break them.
Or you can stay stuck mindlessly following the rules and never rise above them.
Or you can stay stuck mindlessly following the rules and never rise above them.
Do you do this with your architectural drawings?
Of course not, you probably use "standard" sizes of 24"x36" or 30"x42"...both different aspect ratios.
Sep 1, 2022 07:36:17 #
Sep 1, 2022 14:06:43 #
flip1948 wrote:
Do you do this with your architectural drawings?
Of course not, you probably use "standard" sizes of 24"x36" or 30"x42"...both different aspect ratios.
Of course not, you probably use "standard" sizes of 24"x36" or 30"x42"...both different aspect ratios.
What? that is comparing apples ot oranges
Sep 1, 2022 21:38:24 #
Standard sizes are fine, but custom sizes are really cool. however, you pay more for the print and frame. So just shoot what you want, crop to your liking and send it to a custom lab for printing. problem solved.
Sep 7, 2022 13:35:45 #
Architect1776 wrote:
Why are photos all cropped to some arbitrary XY dimension?
I was in the Smithsonian and I do not recall the paintings all being the same arbitrary dimensions.
What makes photographers believe that they must live in arbitrarily determined sets of dimensions?
Should the image determine the XY dimensions?
Or are we going to jail if we don't follow certain XY dimensions in our creations?
I was in the Smithsonian and I do not recall the paintings all being the same arbitrary dimensions.
What makes photographers believe that they must live in arbitrarily determined sets of dimensions?
Should the image determine the XY dimensions?
Or are we going to jail if we don't follow certain XY dimensions in our creations?
Sep 7, 2022 13:38:01 #
As well as many of the other comments, most full frame DSLR's shoot in a 4x6 crop mode. If you crop off this size you will more than likely lose some of the image; i.e. 5x7 or 8x10 aspect ratio.
Sep 7, 2022 14:47:16 #
MG Audet wrote:
As well as many of the other comments, most full frame DSLR's shoot in a 4x6 crop mode. If you crop off this size you will more than likely lose some of the image; i.e. 5x7 or 8x10 aspect ratio.
"4x6 crop mode" is really a 3:2 aspect ratio (width always comes before height with respect to normal horizontal camera orientation).
Cropping a 3:2 image to 5:4 (8x10 or 10x8) loses 20% of the original exposure.
Sep 7, 2022 17:00:55 #
You are correct. Just an old bad habit of referring to 4x6 prints. Yes, 3:2 aspect ratio. People don't always realize by cropping to what they believe is a larger size 10x8 that they lose a good part of the image.
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