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Cropping pictures

  • 25-04-2007 4:35pm
    #1
    tdc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭


    hi, i'm just starting to learn about photography and i recently started to 'crop' some of my pictures. does everyone do this? i get the feeling some photographers dont really like the idea of cropping pictures?


Comments

  • #2
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Do whatever works for you.

    Most photographers do.


  • #3
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    Cropping is no harm , And everyone does it to some extent , however learning to compose and get just what you want in the frame is better , so I would lean more in that direction than having to crop all the time.


  • #4
    tdc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭tdc


    thanks for the advice. what about the photo quality after cropping? is it noticabely reduced? i looked at a few that i had done and the quality seems just as good.


  • #5
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    That would depend on how much you crop , obviously the percentage you crop by reduces the resolution by the same amount , so if you crop 50 % you lose half the resolution , if your just trimming an edge though , theres not going to be much noticeable difference.


  • #6
    elven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    If you're starting off with a picture from an 8 megapixel camera, and you crop a quarter off it, you'll no longer be able to print it up to A3 size... but if you're doing it for the web, fire away. It's about having the resolution to play with, that's what people mean when they say 'bad' is that you are left with a smaller file, with less information in it obviously because you've no longer got the bits you cropped off. All depends on what you want to do with it in the end.


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