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    Senior Member Canon_Bob's Avatar
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    To crop or not to crop - That is the question.

    Both of these are full size (although, obviously reduced in size for the web), and completely unprocessed to this point. Do you think I should leave them full frame, or crop slightly? I kinda like the look of the environment in these. Tempted to leave them alone.




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    Re: To crop or not to crop - That is the question.

    I like the top one as is. I would think about cropping out the reflection of the feet in the bottom one though
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    Re: To crop or not to crop - That is the question.

    not to crop, that is my answer. I really like the environment in the BG. on these.
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    Re: To crop or not to crop - That is the question.

    The contrast is strong enough between the bird and the background. I wouldn't crop. But then again, what do I know?

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    Re: To crop or not to crop - That is the question.

    With distinct reflections, I tend to want to see the entire reflection or none at all. The bottom one is easy to crop out the reflection.

    In the top one, the reflection is too close to the real image to crop out without having the feet too close to the frame edge. On that one I would just crop the bottom just above the white blurry thing and the left side just enough to exclude the branch protruding out of the water.
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