Bee Crop
With the amount of data being captured by the latest digital cameras we have an abundance of detail in our images. This allows the photo-artist to rethink their final image after they get it back to the computer. If they are not satisfied with the look and feel of the scene they can crop down to the area of interest.
These images were sent in by one of our contributors with the suggestion that I talk about cropping. My suggestion is that you experiment with your images on the computer. Crop out things that are not important and isolate your primary subject. Have you ever played the game in the back of the magazine where you try to find the hidden objects within an illustration? Cropping is the same thing. There are a lot of good images hidden within most photos and most photographs could use a little cropping. Don’t be too concerned about the final format size. You can make it a long horizontal or a perfect square. If you are printing and mounting you can cut the mat to fit and if you are showing it on the Internet who cares?
Here the photographer started out with a relatively large scene with the bee in the center. The original is not a very interesting composition and the primary subject is lost in the clutter. Then the photographer cropped the picture three different ways. Which one do you like best? It’s your call but they are all better than the original picture.
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Crop #1 
Crop #2 
Crop #3 
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