[mpascal]

Hi Jim, cropping cannot be considered cheating, if the masters of the past had the ability, they would have been cropping too. What we should admire is the time taken to frame and compose the old photos that are now masterpieces, taken with equipment whose features are nothing compared to what is available today. But we live in faster times, the best equipment is readily available to most people's budgets, there is no need to compose perfectly in each shot. We all need to just know the basics and how to use them in most instances, and well the computer does the rest according to our imagination.
Who knows how pictures will be taken in fifty years time.

Michael