Do you crop your photos?

Do you crop your photos?

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Eh! Don't crop?!

I sometimes take images with the view to cropping - My clients want 8x6 and 10x8 images so I take them wide with that in mind. Also you can create more than one image from a single exposure by cropping.

High Mp cameras allow a great deal of cropping without much loss of detail.

Cropping has been done since photograpohy began I think. Helps also to remove any distractions that may be located at the edge of images.

So yes cropping is what the majority of people do and for a variety of reasons. Not every image though :)
 
Another wide open ended question..

I use prime lens for sport.. of course I crop.. sending to papers? of course i crop.. uploading for buyers to browse and buy .. of course I crop..

Its one of those questions that there is nothing to gain from the answers or the poll
 
Why wouldn't you crop should be the question, most of my cropping is done for creative reason's sometimes it's done because I don't quite have the MM range, but then with 22mp to play with that's not a particular issue for me :D
 
If the image needs or would benefit from cropping, then I crop, but I don't crop everything, so I need a poll option for 'yes and no.'
 
Q) do you put ketchup on your food?

A) for certain things yes, for others no
 
I still do, if I want/need the extra apparent reach, however, I don't crop as often as I used to - without a level, I'm really bad at getting horizons level (and deliberately wonky ones are just plain naff IMO!) so I used to have to spend a few seconds sorting most seascapes out and I found the crop tool the easiest way. Still have to crop a little for ultimate prints - my cameras take pics in either 3:2 ratio or 4:3 and I print on A series papers (apart from 6x4 "proofs") which are all 1:1.414 (or square root of 2 to be precise!). However, I hate PP so sometimes just shoot with losing the edges then print straight from Windows Photo Viewer. (Ultimate prints do get a little PP work - maybe a more precise crop to the correct size of paper and a touch of USM if it adds to the impact of the shot.)
 
I clicked no... but I sometimes do... but it's very rare. I rarely shoot anything with long lenses, or need reach. I don't shoot anything that's fast paced or dynamic, so there's no need to crop for me. I can crop in the viewfinder.
 
You have to crop to fit a borderless print in most paper sizes other times ill crop to make a 16:9 aspect.

I'm really not sure what the point of he pole is - is I a major sin to crop lol
 
I shoot mainly aircraft and insects so I crop to get the best effect for those shots. I also shoot quite a bit of wildlife so, depending on the size of the subject, again I crop to get the best effect. On my rarer landscape, sunset and other general shots I leave it all in.

I don't overwrite the original photo with the crop when I'm happy with the look though, I save the new image to a different folder and keep all the original captures whole. Good job I've got a big hard drive.
 
Yes I crop, always have, I was taught to use sliding or cropping "L"s back in the 60s as a 50mm prime was the norm for most amateur snappers. If you did your own printing then a sliding “L” mask would be used on the base board or if you didn’t have an enlarger, home made black cardboard “L”s were used on a print to size the image and then cut it down. I don’t know but I think today’s togs that do film probably still use similar methods.
 
I crop sometimes in PP to achieve the result i want in terms of composition however i am trying very hard to crop my composition in camera if it suits what im after and i dont really need to in PP.
 
Is the situation needs a crop, I will crop.

I do not crop everything, not do I crop nothing.

If the poll had an option of 'When the situation calls for it' then that is where nearly every answer would be.
 
does rotate count? often I notice my landscape shots are off by a few degrees.

rarely crop for landscape shots.
almost always crop for street photography.
 
Of course, what an odd question...
 
danny_bhoy said:
Seems to me that in certain circles cropping is a dirty word. Personally, I don't see the issue.
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Its not so much a dirty word,but sometimes if you taken a great shot,and compose it well in the camera,then sold the photo sometime it would **** of a lot of photographer if the paper mag etc,would badly crop your photo your photo and spoil it.

If you buy a photo from the Magum for repinting ,your not allow to crop the photo,its one of the condition of their.

I am not saying dont crop,but i do try and compose in the camera,and their nothing wrong with that :)
 
My camera have 3:2 sensor ratios so if I need a print which is different to that what choice do I have other than cropping?
 
raymond bradshaw said:
I try and get it composed right in camera , but if i need to crop a bit of i will do .
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Do you know if your camera has a 100% viewfinder. Mine hasn't its about 97% so there's always a little more to the image than I've seen to compose.
However, there are times I shoot slightly wider so I've a little room for cropping deliberately. Other times I might not have the reach and rely on cropping, I.e. wildlife.
 
this is actually a pointless thread really isn't it (just unsubscribing) lol
 
I like the final image to be as close as possible to the picture I actually took, so for me that means no cropping, no cloning, no rotating etc etc
 
I use a tripod and a bubble level for 99.5% of my pictures so most of the time I'll have the composition right in-camera but if I did need to crop I'd have no hesitation in doing so.
 
In respect of the OP: Yes


simonblue said:
Its not so much a dirty word,but sometimes if you taken a great shot,and compose it well in the camera,then sold the photo sometime it would **** of a lot of photographer if the paper mag etc,would badly crop your photo your photo and spoil it.

If you buy a photo from the Magum for repinting ,your not allow to crop the photo,its one of the condition of their.
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Somewhat different: you cropping your own photo and someone else doing it for you, without your permission or input.
 
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