Cropping

[jvo]

the photo gods made enlargers that go up and down, so crop all you want.

having said that, if you don't get it in the negative, you ain't gonna get it in the print!

imo.

 

[CMoore]

For a finished print, crop to make the image you want to make. There is no virtue in printing something simply because it was recorded on film.

Don't try to make a composition fit your camera's frame, unless you can comfortably do so.
If parts of a negative aren't useful, but the useful parts are what you want, crop to the useful parts.
Presentation choices also have a role in this. For my last group show, I chose square prints in square frames, even though two of the six negatives were actually 6x7.

It's funny how "cropping" seems to, often, be such a divisive topic.
Humans see in color, but "Nobody" questiones photos being shot in black and white. Talk about manipulation.!
But if somebody Removes/Crops a man out of the frame of 3 pretty girls.......

 

[benjiboy]

Yeah -- aluminum foil and a remount -- maybe done three times in fifty years!

I've been shooting mainly slides for more than fifty years, and have learned how to crop in the camera which is also a boon with negative film because I don't have a darkroom.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I crop before I press the shutter release so I greatly prefer to print the whole frame whenever possible.

I've been shooting mainly slides for more than fifty years, and have learned how to crop in the camera which is also a boon with negative film because I don't have a darkroom.

Ben gets it. It is not a rule, rather a good practice.