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Boat Shot - Crop or not?

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Boat Shot - Crop or not?

Postby Yi-P on Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:55 am

I'm having a bit of hard time deciding whether to crop this or not crop...

Please some C&C and advises :)

Original
Image

Cropped
Image

Which one? or crop to different style?
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Postby Geoff on Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:06 am

Hi Yip I think the cropped version is better.
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Postby Reschsmooth on Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:33 am

I agree with Geoff - I think the cropped version gives it better balance.

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Postby mark on Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:29 pm

Yep cropped for me too. I feel that it adds more emphasis to the orange and red hues in the sky as they dominate more of the image in the crop.
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Postby Killakoala on Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:45 pm

When in doubt,
Crop it out.

That's my theory.
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:42 pm

I like the composition of the uncropped one.....but then again i dont know much....so i wouldn't take my advice! :)

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Postby stetner on Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:18 pm

I prefer the original as well.
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