I spotted this cool girl in the town today, (20/7/23) it would have been criminal not to get a portrait of her. She was just visiting from the Netherlands…I knew she wasn’t local…1 she had a good command of the English language, and 2 she was way too friendly. 😂 Taken with my Canon 7D and a wide zoom, a Canon efs 10-18mm (I just happen to have that particular lens on as I had some wide shots in mind) with the pop up flash popped up, something not available on full frame Canon dslr’s or the latest wonder of wonders mirrorless. I always shoot in raw for a variety of reasons, I end up with larger files for printing large if need be, and why not capture all the data possible from the sensor to give you more to work with, if need be. But I hardly needed to do much on this one, it looked great straight out the camera, the raw file! Apart from a bit of vignette I often like to apply (real photographers couldn’t care less about corner sharpness) a bit of contrast and a bit of colour vibrance. I never crop my images now, again I want the full benefit/resolution of the sensor, and I just love the discipline of not cropping, I would rather use the right lens, move backwards or forwards etc to get it right at the point of taking. Also even when not cropping your image…in a way you still are cropping, the camera and lens can only take a small frame of what’s available, the bigger picture…ergo the very nature of photography is all about cropping. Yeah, it does make sense if you think it through.
