Cropping a poorly framed compositions doesnt make for a better composition. If you find your self cropping that much you might choose to aquire the correct equipment to create your compositions. Most apsect ratios exist for a reason derived from some pyscological study. Arbitrarily changing them defeats the use of the human brains natural desire for certain things to be in certain ways. rules are made to be broken only if you understand why the rule exist in the first place. Loose framing wont help lens distortion.
A proper undistort tool that properly scales the image is the right tool.
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-------- Original message --------
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/02/2013 9:12 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: June 1, 2013 Reviews
On 2013-06-02 19:17, RsLittle wrote:
> Fixing lens distortion is not something I do often as it changes the
> Image cropping and I usually try to use the entire frame as in this
> image. When fixed the lower right person becomes cut off. Which to me
> is way worse then distortion.
Yes, sometimes even a "good" correction ends up not being worth it,
because there are costs like losing edges somewhere.
While I learned this some back in college (shooting for the alumni
publications office for the alumni magazine), I'm trying to remind
myself to compose loosely. Cropping is one of the most powerful tools
we have to improve photos -- and not all images I encounter in the wild
are 2:3 aspect ratio :-). (In fact on my M43 camera I can choose the
aspect ratio to shoot among square, 4:3, 2:3, and 9:16.) I find that
the improvement from the *right* cropping is bigger than the less from
an extra 15% or so enlargement.
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