Do you crop to "standard" ratios?

I'll crop to 8x10 and 5x7 to use inexpensive frames, and for print swaps. Sometimes it's difficult, taking a lot off the long side edges for 8x10.

Using the M8 original helps, in that you tend to get a little extra border with the tight .7m optimized framelines.

Walgreens has an option for 6x4.5 prints that I've used a few times.
 
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I have mostly printed to standard print sizes, but have cut the print to a different size to fit a particular print. I guess it just depends on what I am looking at and what I intend to use it for.
 
My photos are already in 4:3 ratio I don't feel any pressure to crop. It is too bad so many cameras use the horrible 3:2 ratio.
 
NDAv said:
My photos are already in 4:3 ratio I don't feel any pressure to crop. It is too bad so many cameras use the horrible 3:2 ratio.
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Now that's a reply I really didn't expect on this forum :) I've always hated the 4:3 ratio... you're forced to crop no matter what size you print at at any 1 hour place and I've just never found the ratio visually pleasing.

Plus trying to explain to my mother that no... the 1 hour shop didn't "mess things up" when she gets a set of 4X6's from her P&S and things get auto cropped and look different than what she see's on the cameras LCD is just a pain :)
 
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I never crop. I just don't get it with regards to straight photography. What are the frames inside my camera for then? Part of the fun of using your camera is getting the shot inside the framelines.
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I couldn't agree more. I crop in the VF with the intent of making a print, usually ~12"x18" or a bit smaller. I do my own matting, so every mounted print is a more or less unique size. I do sometimes get into trouble when I cut the cover matt, however, because I often don't want to lose even one mm at the edges. To get around this problem, I'm experimenting with dry mounting and framing with spacers rather than a cover matt.

Harry
 
NDAv said:
My photos are already in 4:3 ratio I don't feel any pressure to crop. It is too bad so many cameras use the horrible 3:2 ratio.
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My photos are already in 3:2 ratio I don't feel any pressure to crop. It is too bad so many cameras use the horrible 4:3 ratio. :D
 
I'll crop client generated work however they like, but getting the whole frame right is part of the game for me in my own work. Full Frame only for me.
 
I crop very rarely. I like staying with the in-camera composition. And when I shoot 6x6, I just like square.

I haven't really gotten any of my photos printed (done a few in the darkroom), but if I am to do so, I will simply keep the white edges.
I have never sold any of my work, or even framed any of it, so I haven't decided what I'm gonna do when I want to frame something.
 
I hardly ever crop, may it be 36x24mm, 6x6cm or 6x4,5 (4:3 ratio nanana) cameras I'm shooting with. and if I do, it's only a wee little bit and I keep the original ratio.
 
After I scan, I crop out the surrounding film boarder, I never crop heavily into the actual shot. And yes, everything I crop is done in ratio to film format.
 
As a rule, I never crop to "standard formats". I shoot for art and the subject determines the optimal aspect ratio. I plan the shape when shooting so the the only crop in post is to alter one dimension to achieve the aspect ratio dictated by the subject.

Only on the rare occasion that I shoot a commercial image do I plan a different crop. Then, I will either crop to the shape of the client's expected print size or to the shape dictated by the final usage (sign, brochure, business card, printed ad, web page, ...).
 
For my personal work, I shot full frame--I crop in the camera. I cut my own mats so framing is not an issue. For others, I crop as the situation demands.
 
I go through something of a process when it comes to cropping. I'll usually look for stuff I don't want in the frame, if I can find any I'll first try crop with the same aspect ratio as the shot in question, then I'll try square, I'll usually do a few different crops and compare and get some friends' input and pick from that lot.

Occasionally I'll do it completely wrong and end up with a crop that's 10:3 or something equally "wide", but that's not the same as cropping something out of the shots. I see that as more of a case of making the shot about some abstract shapes or colours or the likes.

In most cases I don't crop, but I also don't do post processing on most of my shots. I reckon if I shot digital and RAW, I'd end up cropping a lot more just because I'd end up opening each shot in gimp anyway.
 
If I crop it's to the 35mm format, and very occasionally to the 617 format. :eek:

As a Brit in the US I don't miss A4. :)
 
Yesterday, I went to darkroom and printed more 6x7 shots. I've been doing no-crop rule to myself for quite a while, but I think darkroom prints of 6x7 is one exception that I can make. It just looks so good on paper when you fit an fill the image.

One other exception to no crop rule is when I print for my friends or for sale. 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 will make framing easier for the recipient. For print/web use for myself, I still prefer no cropping.
 
Add me to no-crop list. Dunno, just dont ever do it. I compose in the viewfinder and in general everything in there I want in the final print.
 
I mainly shoot 35 mm film and do not crop. Sometimes I crop a little let say less than 5% of the long side and try to keep the 2:3 ratio because I like it. In some rarely case I crop more if I evaluate I have a good picture but with something distracting, too much distracting on the edge. In this case the ratio is what simply what results.
robert
 
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