What's with no cropping?

I love Eugene Smith crop.

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peterm1 said:
The "no croppers" are the ascetics of the photography world. They take cold showers every morning, and whip themselves with birch bark twigs while standing naked in tubs of ice. They wear smocks of rough grey sack cloth, deny themselves sex (apart from the whipping of course) and eat only cold porridge washed down with spring water.

Many of them are ex Jesuit priests and members of magnus opei.
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I love cold showers and I also love DP. What kind of person am I?
 
FrankS said:
When the image works full frame, I'm happy. If it needs a crop to improve, then I'll do that too. Sometimes I print to include the frame edges and film sprockets. In the picture shown, a street shot, I like the rawness of including the film sprokets.

Here is a full frame (35mm) printed in 11x14inch paper that I printed a couple of hours ago.
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Apologies for going Off Topic:- I am not surprised that you have printed that one - as I said in the gallery, the dogs expression is priceless. I would hang that on my wall.
 
If people worry when cropping is done - before or post exposure, then they should worry about any other PP like color balance and such. I'm not even mentioning desaturation!
 
To me the definition of someone who has never cropped, or felt the need to crop, is someone who has never owned an FSU camera!
 
Anyway ... to me the real definition of a crop is the funny looking plants that a lot of people seem to grow in the hills around where I live!
 
back alley said:
i wonder if writers and poets edit their work?

do painters clean a canvas and start all over?
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There are some poets who do not edit themselves; freestyle allows a lot.

There are some painters who do not "start over" or make corrections (Jackson Pollock is an immediate example). Whether one agrees with their work or not is a different matter.


We're all critics. But many critics are far more fundamentalish than others.
 
I never crop. I take care to frame the shot and leave it at that.
My photos are amateurish compared to a lot of people here but photography is something I do for myself. I just wish I had more spare time so I could do more.

If people like my photos then that's good and if they don't, that's fine also.
 
Oh, I'm a purist here, never crop. But I'm only purist about my own work. What you do with your pictures, fine, crop away. Practically all pictures in the Americans were cropped a bit. Hey, it's your negative.

For me however, not cropping accomplishes a number of things. Also, I'm useless at it, never made a crop I'm happy with. But mostly it's another thing to get out of the way. I just shoot and get the picture and print it, or I don't. But I don't try to fix anything in post except exposure. It keeps me from getting lazy I guess.
 
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