The vast majority of my images aren’t cropped; my Father, one of my early mentors in photography, always advised me to “crop with your feet or crop with your lens…get it right in the camera”, a lesson that stuck with me from those early years as a pre-teen using film to my days using digital. One of Steve’s videos seemed to reinforce that same idea.
Over the last three years or so, as I’ve moved more and more into bird photography, I’m finding that more and more challenging; get frame filling images of birds, particularly birds in flight is challenging (my longest lens is my 500PF). To date, other than straightening the horizon on some images, I still tend to shoot to fill the frame within the confines of my hoped for composition (another aspect of BIF that is challenging), yet I also know that that leaves shots on the table so to speak. There are many wonderful photographers in this forum; how do you approach it and why?
Over the last three years or so, as I’ve moved more and more into bird photography, I’m finding that more and more challenging; get frame filling images of birds, particularly birds in flight is challenging (my longest lens is my 500PF). To date, other than straightening the horizon on some images, I still tend to shoot to fill the frame within the confines of my hoped for composition (another aspect of BIF that is challenging), yet I also know that that leaves shots on the table so to speak. There are many wonderful photographers in this forum; how do you approach it and why?