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>>57891 >I'm sure if you asked a real pro (ie. someone that makes their living solely on their photography) they would tell you the same http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/und-crop.shtml
Pwned.
Of course getting everything perfect in the field is the ideal, but that isn't always possible. Street shooting with a prime when "the decisive moment" happens across the street in the shade of a tree? Crop that, use shadows and highlights and the dodge tool, and there will be a much better photograph out of it.
Shot a photograph in 3:2 that really would look better in 1:1? Crop it. (I do this all the time. Shooting horizontal or vertical often includes irrelevent and distracting stuff, so I crop it to 1:1, or more often, something almost 1:1 but slightly rectangular.) Go for 42394/23421:49592358/42525262 aspect ratio, if that's what works. A camera and Photoshop are creative tools, not surgical scalpels.
Speaking of dodging, Ansel Adams would spend hours over each photograph he shot, dodging, burning, and so on, basically doing the film version of Photoshopping his work.
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