https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/07/department-reports-how-would-you-crop-this-one/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/07/department-reports-how-would-you-crop-this-one/comment-page-1/#comment-1945416 Sat, 07 May 2022 15:47:05 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=80014#comment-1945416 Artie, LOVE the image, like the pano crop and would do same thing.
Tom

]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/07/department-reports-how-would-you-crop-this-one/comment-page-1/#comment-1945397 Sat, 07 May 2022 14:59:52 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=80014#comment-1945397 A couple of thoughts. First, what a lovely image and opportunity for capture. If only you were a couple of inches to your right so the bill wouldn’t have overlapped the chick’s eye? Be it as it may, I took image 1 and looked at it a bit further. I agree that the chick’s right foot is distracting and the crop from the bottom was appropriate. If one tried to maintain the crop ratio and place the adult Tern’s eye on the intersect of the top third, it produced a more pleasing image though the chick’s foot remained. Changing the crop ratio is the preferred solution to achieve both. I liked your approach to adjust the baitfish and think it produces a stronger image. Though the whites are not clipping, one suggestion I have includes pulling back on the highlights a bit to bring back some of the existing detail in the Tern and make it a bit less stark.

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