Genessi Loc: SoCal

Thanks OddJobber, Is the aspect ratio set at 3:2

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Yes, the full image as shot is 3 pixels wide for every 2 pixels tall. But some cameras use different ratios.

Genessi Loc: SoCal

Thank for your help.

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

I have a Nikon D5200, a standard DSLR camera. I just checked a photo in Photoshop by clicking "view in Browser" which brings up a window that looks at photos in given file folder on your computer. All the exif data is displayed in a column on the right. It took a little searching, but it looks like there is an indicator that says "Exposure Mode", on mine it said Auto on the first one and subsequently I did some bracketed exposures for HDR and the indicator changed to "Manual" so I think the info you are searching for is accessible in the data.
As far as enlarging, you can enlarge to any size you want, despite what anybody else says. I had an early DSLR, the Canon 5 megapixel D60, and I too came up with a "money shot" that people were buying. One customer wanted a large print to hang over his sofa, meaning like 48"x60" a real whopper! I used a special enlarging program called "Genuine Fractals", at the time it was like $100 and enlarged it to that size, the digital file was like 360 megbytes, I put in on a CD and took it to a commercial printer, who for a fee, at that time it was less than $100, made a print at the required size. I was amazed to find it perfect, no pixelation whatever. The customer was happy and I made a nice profit in the end.
As far as cropping goes, that is a judgement call, I almost aways do a little cropping to make a balanced composition, there may be an unwanted object on the side that can be removed that way, or too much sky can be fixed, or it you want to center the area of interest more. Just be sure to keep a high resolution setting on the cropping tool.
Tip for enlarging, (if you don't use a special enlarging program) try only 10% at a time. If it is 8x10, the first enlargement should only add .8 to the width, so make it 8.8 inches, then 9.6, 10.2 etc untill you get to the preferred size. I tried that and then compared to one I enlarged in one shot, and sure enough, when I zoomed in closely with the magnifying tool the 10% method did have superior detail.
The huge 24 megapixels the D5200 has makes superior cropping and enlarging possible even more so than a camera that has fewer megapixels.

RICARDOOO Loc: Findlay, Ohio

I crop until I am happy with the image...after all it is my image so it is my choice

phkowalchuk Loc: Aurora, CO

I might not understand what you are asking...or the answers you have received, but if I make a photo and someone wanted to buy it, I would sell the photo that someone saw and want to buy. I wouldn't make any changes; if I did, it wouldn't be the photo s/he wanted to buy. Of course, if I thought it would benefit from a crop or any other adjustment, I would discuss it with the buyer. But, and this is important, I don't offer any photos for sale that aren't just the way I want them.

For instance, my daughter, for whom I would do anything in this world, wanted a crop of a multi-photo stitched panorama I had made for her office. She gave me a couple of pan photos she'd like to have cropped. After looking at all of them, there was only one I would crop (and in fact was very close to a single image I made of the scene prior to making the images for the stitch). I made the crop she wanted on that image alone. For my own reasons as the artist, I told her I would not alter the other photos; no problem. Of course, I didn't charge anything for the photo, but I'd have made the same decision had it been for a sale.

tomcat

Dude, you took the picture! Don't you know what your camera was set on when you took it??

MadMikeOne Loc: So. NJ Shore - a bit west of Atlantic City

DUDE - don't you ever change your camera settings when you are out shooting many images of different subjects? I certainly do, and I suspect that most others do also. It is certainly not possible, practically speaking, to keep track of what setting you used for each image unless you are wasting time noting every detail down on paper.
Just my thoughts on your response.

Genessi Loc: SoCal

Well thanks for all this information George I see the exif info but don't see exposure mode, I have a mac.

Genessi Loc: SoCal

Thanks, I Just didn't know that when you cropped pic if there were certain ratio you had to go by.

Genessi Loc: SoCal

:thumbup:

Genessi Loc: SoCal

That is the best answer. Thanks, Love your input!

phkowalchuk Loc: Aurora, CO

Thank you; I'm glad I was able to help.

Violameister Loc: michigan

Re cropping. I do (almost) all my photography to create travelogues and other slide shows which I project on an 8 foot wide screen. My projector is a standard HD 1920X1080 pixels. My camera takes 4000X3000 pixel images, so there is plenty of leeway for cropping while still projecting a full resolution image. I mention all this only to point out that the answer to the questions of "how much cropping?" and "how much resolution?" are entirely dependent on the desired end use of the image; and mine gets discussed very seldom.

Violameister Loc: michigan

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