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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 123287" data-attributes="member: 13076">I personally think there is nothing wrong with cropping. It is a personal and therefore artistic choice. There are also practical considerations in terms of getting the best expression intended from an image and if something distracts in the field of view that could not be eliminated on account of the constraints of the format, then cropping can be a tool for that as well. As for myself, I prefer that when I take a photo, that everything is there in that photo, in that moment, and that nothing needs to be done afterward. The color, the light, the composition, the timing, the subject, all comes together in that one moment that I personally think should stand on its own. It is so often too easy to just be complacent with a photo one takes because we think that it can always be improved upon afterward on the computer. But in the process of doing that, we lose as much art as we think we gain by having that capability. In order to achieve the purest form of expression within that moment, the camera is the tool of that expression, and the format is the canvas. We do not paint a Mona Lisa and then crop the canvas if the background on the top is distracting. It should stand on its own from the moment the shutter is opened and the light hits the canvas. Striving to achieve only the best of what we wish to express within that moment rather than doing things to the image afterwards, takes an additional commitment to the art.</blockquote>

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