Straining Posts At Work

[Tommy]

Going through a pinhole phase at the moment. I love the challenge of setting up the camera so not having to crop or trim the resulting image.

 

[Elines]

.....setting up the camera so not having to crop or trim /QUOTE]

Not into pinhole so very noddy question.......

.....if you don't have a viewfinder how can you set up the camera to avoid cropping/trimming.

And why can't you do that with non-pinhole cameras (or is it that we can do that with, say, digital/film lens cameras but we get sloppy and often don't bother)

 

[Tommy]

Good questions Chris...
The pinhole camera has a very wide angle of view so you pretty much have to be very close to the subject being photographed. You get to know just how close you should be with practice. You then just have to point the camera in the right direction paying attention to the horizontal and vertical axis and that is all to it. The resulting image is exactly where you pointed the camera at.

Your second point: strictly speaking, we should only be "trimming" an image as opposed to "cropping" an image. Trimming entails minor adjustments to the image whereas cropping entails cutting off certain amounts of the image to produce a result which should have been visioned in the viewfinder at the capture stage. If the camera is on a tripod then it makes things evidently easier to compose and capture with post minimal adjustments, if any, to be carried out.

 

[Elines]

Thanks Tommy, all is becoming clearer

 

[Digital Finger]

I like this-it's eloquent

 

[Alan Jones]

Lovely Tom

 

[Toby Webster]

Has a quite joyous simplicity.

 

[Tommy]

Thank you all for your comments.