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To crop or not to crop

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To crop or not to crop

Postby viper1968 on Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:49 pm

I took this shot of my son the other day. I'm not sure whether I should crop the image or leave it as. Would like to hear others think.

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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby Alex on Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:52 pm

I would definitely crop. Nice photo and use of DoF.

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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby the foto fanatic on Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:53 pm

The child is the photo.

Crop!
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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby wazonthehill2 on Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:30 pm

Crop it!
But maybe go to below his elbow, and move a smidge left.
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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby Geoff on Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:17 am

I think both are equally as good as the other. However, with the uncropped version, I'd clone out the random 'vine' haning from the tree, I think it's distractive.
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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby gstark on Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:03 am

I'd crop, but even more than you've done.

You don't need all that space to the right as we look at this image. The tree, your son, just a bit of the background to the right ...
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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby surenj on Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:13 am

Agree with crop more...
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Re: To crop or not to crop

Postby CoryH on Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:56 pm

I'm vote crop also, the 2nd is great(The 1st is also great, the 2nd is just greater!)
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