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I’ve started getting my wife interested in photography, she’s using my back up 5D and we share my set of lenses. The first thing I taught her wasn’t anything to do with shutter speeds, f stops or ISO. I put the camera in auto mode and told her what you see through the viewfinder is what comes out in the picture, imagine what you’re seeing in there is a painting. Move around till what you see is what you want.
TLDR: Get the framing right and you’re more than halfway to a decent shot.
While I do crop sometimes to get extra effective reach (example below), it's much better to focus on improving your own technique than buying more gear. Obviously that also takes more effort, and also takes time. But it will also come naturally. I've travelling with a camera for 6 years or so now, and kick myself about how much I would now do differently if I were to repeat old trips. I now shoot maybe 30% the number of frames, but leave with at least as many decent shots (probably more, if anything), and I usually don't even put the camera to my eye until I know exactly how I'm expecting the finished shot to come out after processing. But it's the process of all that that's got me to where I am today, so I can't be mad about it.
Example of long crop - this was my X-T1 with the 18-135 at the long end, then cropped about half again. It still printed fine at ~18" wide - I have it on the wall. Looking back I also now see that ISO was way too high, and f20 is completely unnecessary. f8 and ISO 200 would've been fine and produced a cleaner image, but this is exactly the sort of thing you learn as you shoot more and more.
I have two kids who are usually all over the place, meaning one is generally in focus smiling, and the other is being a cock. Where the original composition allows, I may crop the cock child out completely and recompose on the one being sensible. I took the camera out on a walk with the family over the weekend where this happened and ended up cropping a portrait image to a quarter the size of the original composition. It's one of the nicest photos I have of that particular child, who is usually being the photo cock, so it would be a nice one to do a large print of. The extra pixels in that situation would be helpful.
In New York I was shooting the Manhatten skyline from a boat with people moving about everywhere on deck. It was also pissing freezing. So I shot wider than I needed in order to compose a decent image later. In some cases this meant recomposing to a portrait image with one building as the subject. Again, the extra pixels would come in handy if I wanted to blow those types of composition up.
I am in no way under the illusion that a fuller featured camera would make me a better photographer.
https://imgur.com/Y8cH2mM
https://imgur.com/qQ9f5C9
https://imgur.com/FIVYviB
https://imgur.com/nVO6r5f
https://imgur.com/4jWDkJc
I love a couple of those photos, btw. The Rockefeller view is always nice, and a bit unusual to see it in the morning light
Here are a couple of colour jpg images using the classic chrome film simulation. I love that simulation, but didn't realise you could adjust in camera settings for shadows, highlights, sharpness etc.
https://imgur.com/HVwUpuR
https://imgur.com/Tfx8guv
https://imgur.com/aGHIl8m
https://imgur.com/u1Yb3t1
https://imgur.com/RX6xDol
https://imgur.com/VKfbhrj
https://imgur.com/LnBEIm0
https://imgur.com/hMXo8mj
Also been creating some custom versions of the film simulations and am really liking the jpg files direct out of camera.
Definitely not going to upgrade any time soon.
https://imgur.com/a/4LCmABV
Edit...this 35mm f2 lens is amazing. Love the field of view and when I nail focus it's tack sharp, in the middle at least.
I use the 23mm 1.4 and 50mm f2. The 50mm is absolutely stunning, really tiny, sharp and fast focusing with plenty shallow depth of field when needed.
I'm excited for the future of photography - Canon are making full frame mirrorless more affordable and they've managed to break physics seemingly with their new 70-200mm 2.8 lens which looks 2/3rds the length of the SLR versions.
Not that I'm buying anytime soon, but it's an exciting time and any new camera is a stunning piece of kit.
Oh, that seems super weird. I assumed, being an L 70-200 it was IF.
Traded in my Canon 550d and lenses and the XT10 for a Fuji xpro2!
This was, in hindsight, completely unnecessary as the XT10 Wasa fine camera. However, I was gassing hard for that range finder style, better processor, weather sealing and downright sexiness. It's much snappier than the XT10.
Do NOT tell the missus
It's such a great camera, I use an xt2 because I'm left eye dominant... If an xpro was available left-eyed I'd be all over it.
Enjoy the extra pixels!
Enjoy.