Small JPEGs and Crop Modes

If you can wrap your head around using the small JPEG size on your GR, you’ll use crop modes more. Your photos will all have the same amount of pixels. 7.5MP or 3360 × 2240 pixels. It’s a liberating approach once you’ve accepted shooting in a smaller size. Now you can freely shoot in crop mode with all of your files being the same size. I’m not worried about printing size. Use a pixels to print calculator. You can safely print a 15 x 10 photo at 240 DPI or a 30 x 20 at 120 DPI which is more than sufficient for anything I’d ever do. You’re never standing a foot from a photo on the wall. More like three feet so 120 DPI is sufficient. If you want a bigger photo, just put a white matte around it and frame it. Go to any photo exhibit, most photos on the wall are not bigger than this. Especially for exhibits that show a body of work, say 10 photos in a particular project.

5% Keeper Rate

In the past I’d return from a trip and have so many “keeper” photos. Most were not keepers and better deleted. But I’d save them because “maybe I can make them better in post” or other rationale. Now I’ve streamlined my workflow that I might come back from a weekend adventure with only 50 photos instead of thousands. I mean really, how many decent photos can you make in a weekend? Just delete the ones you question and only keep your favorites.