http://tomdibble.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/quickie-cropping/ Just Words Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://tomdibble.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/quickie-cropping/#comment-42 Steve Simon Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:40:41 +0000 http://tomdibble.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-42 Hey Tom, some good information there. Action and sports photography are great candidates for cropping since so much is out of the photographer's control and you don't want to be too tight, since you can't get it back. From my documentary point of view, I would never "paint that extra in", because I have chosen to capture reality without altering it in any way beyond the traditional color correcting and exposure controls. Not meaning to get on a high horse here, but this is how documentary photographers operate ethically, since any changes made in one photo puts doubt over an entire archive that photographer has produced. It's journalism and it's the code of ethics photojournalists live by. Those who have breached this code have damaged their reputations and career in ways they could never recover from. Hey Tom, some good information there. Action and sports photography are great candidates for cropping since so much is out of the photographer’s control and you don’t want to be too tight, since you can’t get it back. From my documentary point of view, I would never “paint that extra in”, because I have chosen to capture reality without altering it in any way beyond the traditional color correcting and exposure controls. Not meaning to get on a high horse here, but this is how documentary photographers operate ethically, since any changes made in one photo puts doubt over an entire archive that photographer has produced. It’s journalism and it’s the code of ethics photojournalists live by. Those who have breached this code have damaged their reputations and career in ways they could never recover from.

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