Forum: Photography


Subject: to crop....or not to crop....

jacoggins opened this issue on Sep 02, 2002 ยท 13 posts


jacoggins posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:25 PM

that is the question....

jacoggins posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:27 PM

or not....

bevchiron posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:34 PM

Good question!! I think the second is the more interesting image, not sure why though ; )

elusive.chaos

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azy posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:34 PM

Its got to be the crop for me

Eggiwegs! I would like... to smash them!


mysnapz posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:36 PM

Yes I must agree the crop is stronger. It gives the shot a diagonal composition and doesnt distract from the main subject. :O)

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali


jacoggins posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 4:43 PM

I think this version is a bit stronger.... what do ya think... diffuse glow/color burn filter... Jack

Michelle A. posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 5:03 PM

Nice stuff!! I think I like the original cropped version best myself.

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azy posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 5:31 PM

The original crop looks cleaner than the "bit stronger" one

Eggiwegs! I would like... to smash them!


dhastings posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 11:33 PM

I'm going to go with the crowd on this one. I like the original crop. There's something about the way the numbers seem to be floating in the sky that makes me look twice. -daveh


starshuffler posted Tue, 03 September 2002 at 5:21 PM

Original crop for me. :-) (*


randyrives posted Wed, 04 September 2002 at 6:24 AM

The first crop image is the best!


GuiteDeSainteMarie posted Thu, 05 September 2002 at 4:45 AM

I like the big version best. I thought it was a plane or a car - what is it really ? The big version is already a very close-up image and here you can at least have a guess what it is which you can't in the cropped version - at least I can't .... It's just three letters floating in the sky. In the big version there is context enough to have a guess about what it is. I like the green and blues together too. Gitte


jacoggins posted Thu, 05 September 2002 at 4:38 PM

hi Gitte, it's over the entrance to the building seen in the "oh my God, it's full of sky" pic.... thanks, and welcome to the group.... Jack