How would you crop this? My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300 mm lens. He asked me how I would crop it and I found that to be a fairly difficult exercise. Too close and...

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Aug 27, 2020 08:24:26 #

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300 mm lens. He asked me how I would crop it and I found that to be a fairly difficult exercise. Too close and the Tiger Lily becomes the main subject; too far away and the other flowers become distracting so I'll throw it out to you Hoggers. If you will, download the original, crop it as you think best and repost your results (with explanation, if you want to) in your reply.

I'd be interested to see how others see photo this ending up.

Thanks, people.

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Aug 27, 2020 08:26:27 #

Larryshuman

I would first use the highlight/shadow slider. Its too dark.

Aug 27, 2020 08:27:55 #

PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

They are both very nice, the second photo is beautiful.

Aug 27, 2020 08:34:06 #

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

fourlocks wrote:

My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300... (show quote)

Aug 27, 2020 08:41:49 #

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

I prefer the second, maybe lighten the hummer a little.

Aug 27, 2020 08:50:58 #

SkyKing Loc: Thompson Ridge, NY

...I find the bird more interesting than the flower but it seems like a really big crop...?

Aug 27, 2020 08:52:24 #

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

To me this is the perfect crop!

Aug 27, 2020 08:55:04 #

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I think the one offered by the OP is the best.

Aug 27, 2020 10:26:12 #

lesdmd Loc: Middleton Wi via N.Y.C. & Cleveland

I kept the bud upper right to help in framing the humming bird and flower. Plenty of pixels to allow extraneous stuff to be removed.

Aug 27, 2020 10:50:57 #

Larryshuman

Here is how I processed the file. I surrounded the bird first with marching ants and used highlight/shadow slider. I left the marching ants on while I used Topaz Denoise AI to sharpen. Then I unselected the marching ants and then I surrounded the flower with the marching ants and used the highlight/shadow slider, brightness and contrast sliders. I also removed a couple of background items.