Selections from some recent shots with the 20D and 100mm macro
History:
I self-imposed a moratorium on cropping photos some time ago. There is much conventional wisdom in photography against the habit of cropping. The reason, I think, is to take away a crutch and force one to think about image composition rather than "shoot it now, fix it later."
Technically, there are also many faults with cropping. As an image gets cropped and blown up, so do its weaknesses. If it's not incredibly sharp, it will really show on a crop. If there's noise, the noise will be made much worse.
So, for the last year and a half or so, I have only cropped photos a handful of times, when it was clear afterward that a crop was the only way to salvage a photo for some reason.
With the new camera, I can get faster shutter speeds, i.e., sharper images, and with less noise- all thanks to the ISO noise handling.
So, after 18 months, I thought I'd try my hand at cropping a few. Here are the before-and-after results.
Sorry for the diatribe. A little history adds so much context though.
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(1/250, f/8. ISO 200, 420EX flash)
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(1/200, f/5.6, ISO 1600)
AFTER major crop (IMO too far, a good example)
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(1/25, f/11, ISO1600)
