Crop failure?

[Guest DaveW]

Or failure to crop?

 

I found this article whilst looking for those illustrating cropping, but I decided to post this one separately.  Many people still seem to believe you must post the full image the camera takes, or even restrict yourself to certain aspect ratio's.  You don't even have to do that for printing out pictures on set paper sizes (you can cut off any white paper or borders left after printing them out) let alone for posting onscreen.

 

As long as an image does not exceed the maximum dimensions in any direction allowed by the website concerned you can crop to portrait or landscape proportions, or even more exaggerated letterbox shapes, either vertical or horizontal if the subject suits it.  Have fun:-

 

http://gilly-walker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Creative-cropping.pdf

Edited June 9, 2013 by DaveW

[bugmeister]

Interesting article, Dave, and useful illustrations of the fact that a crop can enhance a picture no end.

 

I would only say that if you're producing pictures for a set purpose, then the client is always right. If they want A3 or A4 or any other size, it's useful to keep that in mind if possible when taking the picture, then maybe use presets to get the right aspect when processing.

 

If they are for yourself or you have more flexibility, then what the heck, be creative! I did a print for someone not long ago at a rather strange feeling 20x8" because that's what they wanted on their wall. (it was a landscape).