Fire and Flora in the Fall 2008

Fire and Flora in the Fall 2008, originally uploaded by cinda marie.

Hello,
This picture was taken in Minnesota a few weeks ago at the Woodland Lake Wildlife Center. It was a great place to enjoy nature at it's best. The hiking trail brought back memories walking through the leaves and listening to the crunching sounds. There was a young red fox that crossed my path, much to quick for me to get a great shot, but still great memories.

That is one of the things that I like best about photography; you are recording your life and memories. It is a great way to bring back the cherished happenings of your life. When you get older and can not get out you still have the memories of your life in this exciting form of media.

PICTURE FORMAT AND SIZING FOR PRINT AND FRAIMING
For several years I had taken photographs and never spent the time learn the best way to get your prints on paper. I had several high end photo printers but never got the results that I was determined to have. I almost gave up until I was forced to understand Picture Format and Sizing which helps in selling and framing your pieces.

My Camera, the Digital Canon 40D shoots in a 2x3 format. This means that a multiple of 2"x3" would be a perfect fit for a 4"x6", 8"x12", 12"x18", 16"x24" finished prints. If you would like to have a final print in the more common frame sizes you would need to crop the picture to a 3x4 format, an example would be taking about 4" off the longest side of a 16"x24" print. When cropping use constraints on your photo editing to achieve the correct ratio. When shooting with a 2x3 format camera keep in mind the picture out come. You may want to take a few shots with a 3x4 format in mind, knowing that a small amount will but cropped off in editing. The picture that I'm featuring today really could be cropped to a 3x4 format without forfeiting the interest of the picture. I have several photographs that just look better as a 2x4 format and cropping would take away from the intent of the photograph. Matting and Framing is very expensive for this size unless you get into do-it-yourself projects.

The cameras that shoot in a 3x4 format gives you prints in the standard sizes for framing; 8"x10" and 16"x20", etc. This makes it less expensive to frame photographs, because the standard size has not changed since the good old film days. These cameras are usually used for portrait photographs.

Personally, I do as little cropping as possible because your end result will be sharper. For the most part I shoot the picture as intended for a final result and only crop to straighten the picture or clean up an edge.

Happy Cropping!!!!