Use Your Resolution For Cropping Options

On my way to a meeting, I glanced the other way up the road where I had parked my car. I immediately saw a scene that could offer some nice compositions for some stock photography. This action was taking place too far up the road in the opposite direction for me to go in for a closer look, and still be on time for my meeting.

I happened to have a Nikon 800 in my camera bag with a 70 - 200mm lens attached. Very quickly I was able to capture a few frames without diverting up the road and I would let the resolution of the Nikon give me some options for the final crop.

Above you can see the frame I captured for the image at the top of the page. The final crop is shown as a lighter rectangular area within the scene. From the various frames I captured this was the tightest I went to  for a crop. 

The Nikon 800 body can resolve at up to 36 megapixels. 

When shooting to make the most of the camera's resolution, you have the latitude to make fairly aggressive crops to images and still end up with usable sized edits for print or online. For this example, the cropped area can still deliver a good quality 9" x 6" inch print or a large sized screen resolution image that would work for many purposes.

Finally, remember the quality of the lens you are using will always have a major effect on how much advantage you can take of your camera's resolution.