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<blockquote data-quote="RON_RIP" data-source="post: 795505" data-attributes="member: 1140"><p>Snowy Saturday so I am working on my files, looking for the next photo i will print. I am somewhat amazed by the number of members that do not print their work. I look on this somewhat like big game hunting. The hunt is not really finished until it is bagged, tagged, stuffed and hanging on the wall. But I digress....</p><p></p><p>it goes without saying that I only shoot in raw and the first thing I do when I open a photo in my editor is to deal with the crop. What will I retain and what seems to me superfluous. This is the time I decide what the ultimate photo will look like.</p><p></p><p>Next comes sizing. and a large part of that is aspect ratio. The ratio determines how the photo will display. I did not use to look closely at this, but now understand how vital it is to the photos presentation. So now I size photos at different ratios and compare them to each other to select the perfect fit. Finally,then i deal with print size. I am continually surprised how much the prints final size plays in the overall impact of a photo.</p><p></p><p>Some photos scream to be large, others actually look better say printed as 5 x7 or even 6 x 6. Others need as large a print as can be rendered with degrading of the image.</p><p>Some days I feel that this is just as hard to learn as how to take the photo itself.</p><p></p><p>I would certainly welcome any other's thoughts on this subject, but for now it's back to the files. Break time is over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RON_RIP, post: 795505, member: 1140"] Snowy Saturday so I am working on my files, looking for the next photo i will print. I am somewhat amazed by the number of members that do not print their work. I look on this somewhat like big game hunting. The hunt is not really finished until it is bagged, tagged, stuffed and hanging on the wall. But I digress.... it goes without saying that I only shoot in raw and the first thing I do when I open a photo in my editor is to deal with the crop. What will I retain and what seems to me superfluous. This is the time I decide what the ultimate photo will look like. Next comes sizing. and a large part of that is aspect ratio. The ratio determines how the photo will display. I did not use to look closely at this, but now understand how vital it is to the photos presentation. So now I size photos at different ratios and compare them to each other to select the perfect fit. Finally,then i deal with print size. I am continually surprised how much the prints final size plays in the overall impact of a photo. Some photos scream to be large, others actually look better say printed as 5 x7 or even 6 x 6. Others need as large a print as can be rendered with degrading of the image. Some days I feel that this is just as hard to learn as how to take the photo itself. I would certainly welcome any other's thoughts on this subject, but for now it's back to the files. Break time is over. [/QUOTE]
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