One of the best benefits of digital images with high resolution is that you can crop them to essentially aspect ratio you please, but there is a drawback as well: we often do not put as much thought into the final crop of a photo before we press the shutter as we did in the days of film. This great video tutorial discusses the issue and offers some helpful advice for better crops of your landscape photos.
Coming to you from Alister Benn of Expressive Photography, this awesome video tutorial discusses the issue of cropping in landscape photography. Perhaps the greatest change I have noticed in my approach to cropping is a higher level of consistency within single projects. I used to crop every image individually, but I noticed that that often led to a rather frustrating sense of randomness when I viewed a batch of supposedly related images. Thinking more carefully and consistently cropping to the same aspect ratio made for a stronger impact, and I noticed happier clients as well. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Benn.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out our latest tutorial, "Photographing the World: Japan With Elia Locardi!"
Aspect ratio is important but is a conundrum in thought . I used the pano function on my A7RM2 on a visit to the Grand Canyon. I used different MM settings on a telephoto and got different size images to play with but still could adjust the aspect. Yes there is what we see when an image is captured for we frame it on site that is what our art eye sees but later in post we may see it differently. For the latter reason we should not rush the final image but walk away for a day and come back to it. Not a pro selling but I like to go to galleries and ask what sells the most as far as size and aspect ratio. In today's world you would have to ask a web site for I ask not for the image but size and aspect. I have no idea what sells image wise but only a pro can tell. When I crop an image to other than the 3:2 I get different reactions. My main genre is Milky Ways for it is like the camera is like a microscope but at night the camera captures the unseen by the eye and no one really sees it mainly the eyes do not see colors in darkness, except for lights, so an image of it no one believes and thinks it's something like PS art. I can do a wide 10, 12, 14mm or more image to get more of it or do a pano of the MW arc but still no one believes. It is just one of those things as a photographer you want to capture more of. The last is an in camera pano using the the A7RM2, do you crop it or let it be?