Beginner Some cropping help please ?

[Zimmer]

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Just a snap, nothing special but I was curious, what would be the best way of cropping.

e.g. something like this:






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[Sam Tip]

Rightly or wrongly, instinctively I normally prefer space in a shot to be where people or animals are facing. So I'd crop the other way and clone away the twigs that overlap the horse. That make sense? (But your crop is tidier.) Or even better, cheat lots and flip the horse the other way -- lots of editing!

 

[swanseamale47]

As Sam says, the popular idea is to leave space for the subject to move into, so I would probably leave more space on the left for the horse to walk/look into. But if you like something where it is, thats what matters, it's your picture after all..

 

[Zimmer]

Thanks guys, should have brought my chainsaw with me.

 

[Rhodese]

or leave more, any suggestions ?

Alternatively, if you crop, select, copy paste, flip horizontal, a bit of cloning, and flatten.

Rhodese.

 

[BillN_33]

generally not in the very centre ..... off to the left a bit with the subject

think about a little more space at the top than the bottom ...... too much fground not enough bg

just IMHO

 

[Zimmer]

Alternatively, if you crop, select, copy paste, flip horizontal, a bit of cloning, and flatten.

Rhodese.

That's cool m8 and thanks for making the effort too.

That would probably take me a day to do.

 

[Pookeyhead]

Too many rules in this thread.

Obey rules, and your images just look like everyone else's that obey the same rules.

Feel the force Dude....



Personally I like the first one, without any cropping. What makes you think you needed to crop at all? It's a shot of a horse, so you need to make the horse bigger? That it? Sorry, but the horse alone is boring.... it's a horse.... seen a million of them. The first one is the horse & environment, and the framing of the trees is quite pleasant.

All you're doing by cropping it, is ruining it IMO.

 

[Zimmer]

All you're doing by cropping it, is ruining it IMO.

Funny you should say that m8.
I actually got the photo printed last week, and after exploring the options, I pretty much did as you said. I just cropped slightly upwards to remove the fence.

 

[Rhodese]

What David said, plus crop with your feet if you had walked a pace or two forward you would have lost the fence.
Look around the viewfinder not just at the subject.

Rhodese.