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Looking for a better crop
Started November 20, 2008 @ 12:12am by Ron Martinsen
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Ron Martinsen
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| Looking for a better crop | November 20, 2008 @ 12:12am | I like this photo (which was shot raw adn never post-processed yet), but I hate the crop. I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve the crop of this photo as well as any other useful suggetions:
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Wes
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| November 20, 2008 @ 7:40am | Ron, I am not sure what I would do here. You have a very nice focused bee in front of a very busy background. Have you tried a 100% crop on the bee to see what that includes? Unless this is a 100% crop  . The only other thing I would probably try, would be to blur the background just a little more, but I would have to play with that before I could decide. I would like to see the bee a little closer.
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RickT
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| November 20, 2008 @ 2:10pm | I had a couple similar to this shot this last summer. If I were to handle this shot similarly, I'd crop off most of the distracting background on the right and then darken the background that remained. I might also take a bit off the bottom of the frame to leave the bee on a diagonal with the flower and flower stem.
I'm not quite satisfied with that solution, but I think it's an experimental starting point (always save the original!).
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
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April
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| November 22, 2008 @ 8:08pm |
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I like this photo (which was shot raw adn never post-processed yet), but I hate the crop. I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve the crop of this photo as well as any other useful suggetions: |
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I'm curious: What do you "hate" about the crop, and what do you most like about the photo? That might give you a lead into post processing which most brings out what caught your eye.
I enjoy the complementary colors in this image, and that's something I might try to punch.
I can also envision a square crop, as RickT alluded to, to emphasize the diagonals.
P.S. It's interesting that when I click on this image I'm taken to a bear, scratching it's jowels?
April (PPY)
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