Both. If you over crop, you can lose too much resolution and get too much grain. Also, cropping can't correct the angle of the shot and the placements of the elements that make up the picture.
Meaning the amount of cropping or what cropping can accomplish?
And if you shoot a large enough format, cropping can give you several pictures from the same negative.Both. If you over crop, you can lose too much resolution and get too much grain. Also, cropping can't correct the angle of the shot and the placements of the elements that make up the picture.
And if you shoot a large enough format, cropping can give you several pictures from the same negative.
One crop angle is usually the best.
For the record, I do admire his cropping decision for this photo. I was taken by my parents to see Stravinsky conduct Firebird in London in 1965. He was in his 80s, I think. I was only 10, but it remains an indelible memory. You too can watch it online here.I think Newman shot mostly 4x5, although he did do some 35. His style was to place the subject in the bottom third of the frame in an environment that reflected who the subject was. But he was smart enough to recognize that for the Stravinsky shot, cropping out the dead space, leaving the subject in the bottom corner made a better composition and made the subject more dominant.
For me, the picture works. But I guess I'll burn in hell for the sin of such wanton and egregious cropping.
I believe that there is a significant body of musical creativity based on the premise that "sinners have more fun".
As long as you keep your cropping to your photos. Doing that to a dog’s ears is inhumane and, in some quarters, illegal.
For the record, I do admire his cropping decision for this photo. I was taken by my parents to see Stravinsky conduct Firebird in London in 1965. He was in his 80s, I think. I was only 10, but it remains an indelible memory. You too can watch it online here.
As long as you keep your cropping to your photos. Doing that to a dog’s ears is inhumane and, in some quarters, illegal.
They docked (not cropped) our mini-poodles tail before we got him. I wonder how people feel about docking photos?
On dogs that’s as inhumane as ear cropping but I think that in photography it would refer to cutting up the print. Cropping, photographically, could be done when making the print or after. I guess I do a bit of docking when I cut up developed sheet film and reassembled it to make a collage for a cyanotype. No animals were injured in the process (if one overlooks the source of gelatin in the emulsion.)
Happens all the time.We refused to neuter him which would have been worse. I wonder if you could neuter a photo?
If you are of the Bresson school, you seldom need to crop.
Cropping photos is like cropping hair.
Go ahead. I dare you to make sense of that.
The dose makes the poison. Extreme cropping to rescue a bad composition often won't work well. Cropping with aesthetic intention is a different matter. So cropping is neither good nor bad, its value is determined contextually.
So, it would best be done when there's a full moon.Cropping photos is like cropping hair.
Thanks for sharing! Photrio postcard exchanges are pretty awesome, so I like to think he would have joined inKertesz did quite a bit (lookie them hands of pianist P. Arma portrait in the same article):
A Close Look at André Kertész's Quartet | The Art Institute of Chicago
André Kertész’s image of the Feri Roth string quartet is tiny, but it packs a wallop.www.artic.edu
Over three years he made ”new compositions and techniques and printed most of his work in the intimate carte postale format.”
Postcard Exchange, anyone?
What a great example of taking an average photo (imho) and making it great by the use of creative cropping.Over three years he made ”new compositions and techniques and printed most of his work in the intimate carte postale format.”
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