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01/04/2009 12:30:09 PM · #1 |
You have a set-up for a picture and in your mind you know what you want the final product to look like. You have the choice of using two different lenses:
- one that will give the shot in mind full size with minimal cropping so when preparing for the web it is a significant re-size, smaller
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- one that will give the shot where a substantial amount of image space would need to be cropped but minimal resizing when preparing for the web.
Which would you choose and why? Would your choice be camera related or processing related?
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01/04/2009 12:37:07 PM · #2 |
I can think of no reason to sacrifice image area in the original to avoid resizing for the web. The end result is less detail in the web-hosted image if you follow that path, and no possibility of using the image at a larger size further down the road.
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01/04/2009 12:44:20 PM · #3 |
Unless you feel you may have another use for the full frame at some time, it seems totally pointless to shoot something which will require so much cropping unless you don't have a lens that can give you the required result. Even for web size you are losing quality if you have to crop too much.
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01/04/2009 12:56:11 PM · #4 |
Agreed, if you crop a lot out, you may end up with visible pixelation and artifacts. I generally shoot just a little wider than I want my final image to look, in order to give me some fudge factor to play with the composition. Then resize, sharpen and I still have the large image for print, desktop background, bird cage liner, or whatever. Larger images will give you more you can work with.
Frame the shot image close to what you want to see in the end.
Message edited by author 2009-01-04 12:58:01. |
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01/04/2009 03:47:58 PM · #5 |
I think what he's saying is if the end result is say, a head shot at 800x600 you can do this several ways:
shoot so that the head will be about 800x600 at 100% crop
shoot to fill the frame and resize it in PS to 800x600
put the camera in a lower res mode and shoot either of the above ways as appropriate.
Since I'll be resizing/saving for the web I'll shoot what I want the finished image to look like and worry about the rest later. I do at times use lower res files (in camera) if I know it's for web only, or the like. |
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01/04/2009 04:22:48 PM · #6 |
I think I agree with  Bear_Music, but would like to be clearer about the technical reasons. It seems to me that unless your downsizing and compression methods are inferior to whatever your camera does to shoot at lower resolution and/or to use less pixels, his answer is correct. Just wondering if anyone knows more about this. |
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01/04/2009 05:18:21 PM · #7 |
This sounds like a very easy thing to "set up and test" and see how your results turn out.
My gut feeling (and what I would personally do without even considering cropping) is you'll have much better results filling your frame with "what you want" and resizing "down" to the final size you need; rather than intentionally shooting a much wider field of view and cropping what you wanted in the first place.
Using the latter option, I'd also be very concerned about misjudging what you are shooting, and ending up with having to "size up" at the end, which will virtually never give you good results. -- I'd much rather have an image I can resize "down" than one I have to resize "up".
If you think shooting a wider field and cropping out what you wanted to shoot originally will provide better results (or just want to try it to see), I'd say make it happen. I think this would be easy to set up and test, and you can quickly compare the results side-by-side and see what you get.
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01/04/2009 09:17:43 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I think what he's saying is if the end result is say, a head shot at 800x600 you can do this several ways:
shoot so that the head will be about 800x600 at 100% crop
shoot to fill the frame and resize it in PS to 800x600
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No lower res mode (all shots are in highest res RAW format) but yes, my question must have been poorly worded as these two lines are what I am after. Which is the preferred shot and why? And is that related to camera/equipment or processing? |
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