Heavy Cropping? - DPChallenge Forums

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

02/18/2014 06:32:00 PM · #1

I scan thru 500px at odd times and they have a heavily cropped set of images in their "flow" - a grab bag of images that may be based on something about my viewing habits or not.... It's occurring more and more that I love the heavily cropped image but the full image disappoints - especially the portrait oriented images.

Anyone else noticed this? or am I just crazy (ok different question I know)?

I know I tend to be anti portrait mode even for people where I prefer the landscape shape for some reason but the cropping has crept up on me somehow. I wonder if it's just a trend that I had not noticed before or something that I just like.... might start playing around that in my images.

Anyway.... Thoughts??

tanguera

Nikon D750

02/18/2014 07:04:38 PM · #2

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by heavily cropped. Are you saying these are a very small portion of a much larger image, or are you talking about portrait vs. landscape orientation of an image?

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

02/18/2014 07:43:59 PM · #3

It's like when you're working in photoshop and you zoom in to fix an area, and this extreme crop looks killer, but when you go back to full frame it just doesn't have that impact? So you try CROPPING it that way, but most of the time that doesn't work either, heavily cropped needs to have bigger-than-800 images to work mostly, I donno.

Anyway, 500px shows us square-cropped segments of larger images as thumbs instead of full-image thumbs like we do here. And many times the cropped thumbs are MUCH more interesting than the full image...

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

02/18/2014 07:59:31 PM · #4

Heavy cropping?

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

02/18/2014 09:14:06 PM · #5

I may need to NSFW&LC this thread, sheesh.

02/18/2014 09:17:45 PM · #6

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Anyway, 500px shows us square-cropped segments of larger images as thumbs instead of full-image thumbs like we do here. And many times the cropped thumbs are MUCH more interesting than the full image...

Yeah.. although in the flow it's more rectangular but same as the square crops in the list.... I just find it interesting that the crops are more interesting in some cases..... and just got me to thinking what was behind that... Maybe we should pay more attention to the cropping and outside of the 3:2 ratio we all see thru the viewfinder...... just musing I guess :-)

02/18/2014 09:21:26 PM · #7

Originally posted by tanguera:

Scratch the port/land thing... Just me adding confusion. Yes - I mean that 500px takes a small portion of the image.... and in a number of cases those tiny portions are more interesting than the actual image. I'm just wondering why that is... and just maybe.. if I should be playing with it in my images.

Message edited by author 2014-02-18 21:22:21.