856. What about photographers who never crop their photos?

That is a valid artistic choice, but it doesn’t affect the trustworthiness of a photograph any more than does opting for a longer focal-length lens (which provides the same result as cropping).

The “never crop” principle is not a required feature in the most-widely trusted photographs in the free world.

Almost every camera “crops” the lens’s round light beam into a rectangle — and how the photographer positions the camera and frames the scene before the shutter is even clicked always crops some things out of the camera’s view as well.

Every single-exposure, undoctored photograph necessarily leaves some things out of the picture.

For example, an uncropped photograph may not depict as much of a scene as would a photo taken from the same spot with a shorter focal-length lens and then lightly cropped.