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Jan 24, 2023 05:20:16   #
angler Loc: StHelens England
 
Excellent.

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Jan 24, 2023 06:02:17   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
bajadreamer wrote:
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a quandary. I really like the OOF flowers in the BG of the lower part of the image. To try to preserve those I cropped in a more horizontal mode. Unfortunately, IMO, that made for an ungainly looking image. I then cropped in a more traditional, rule of thirds, manner but had to add canvas at the top. That gave a better composition (again IMO) but I lost a lot of the BG OOF flowers. Any thoughts? Otherwise the original image had the bird slightly brought up and the BG slightly brought down. The re-cropped version had a slight blur applied to the BG. Also the re-cropped version resulted in a slightly zoomed in bird.
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#2 for me!!

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Jan 24, 2023 08:59:07   #
J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio
 
bajadreamer wrote:
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a quandary. I really like the OOF flowers in the BG of the lower part of the image. To try to preserve those I cropped in a more horizontal mode. Unfortunately, IMO, that made for an ungainly looking image. I then cropped in a more traditional, rule of thirds, manner but had to add canvas at the top. That gave a better composition (again IMO) but I lost a lot of the BG OOF flowers. Any thoughts? Otherwise the original image had the bird slightly brought up and the BG slightly brought down. The re-cropped version had a slight blur applied to the BG. Also the re-cropped version resulted in a slightly zoomed in bird.
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I like #2 best.

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Jan 24, 2023 09:29:35   #
mindzye Loc: WV
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
I think there's still other crop opportunities. What if you went more 16:10? You can 'see' this with the second crop, just scrolling the image off the top of the window, until you 'see' where to drop-down the top edge of the frame. It should fall around a bright spot in the new upper right background, something you'll have to clone away to not draw attention away from the bird. The bird's eye will then fall both on (about) the upper 1/3 horizontal guide across the frame and the center vertical through the frame. Clone away the random moss / litter entering the frame in the lower right corner too.
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Jan 24, 2023 10:15:52   #
imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida
 
bajadreamer wrote:
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a quandary. I really like the OOF flowers in the BG of the lower part of the image. To try to preserve those I cropped in a more horizontal mode. Unfortunately, IMO, that made for an ungainly looking image. I then cropped in a more traditional, rule of thirds, manner but had to add canvas at the top. That gave a better composition (again IMO) but I lost a lot of the BG OOF flowers. Any thoughts? Otherwise the original image had the bird slightly brought up and the BG slightly brought down. The re-cropped version had a slight blur applied to the BG. Also the re-cropped version resulted in a slightly zoomed in bird.
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a qu... (show quote)


Great shot ! - I would do a square crop lower left justified ......thanks for sharing

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Jan 24, 2023 10:42:21   #
Nalu Loc: Southern Arizona
 
I agree with others that there are more opportunities (endless), but what I don’t like about your crop is that you cut off some of the vegetation on the bottom of the image which to me is a bit distracting. I also think you could have left a bit more on the right side of the image, which would have left the perched bird a bit further left in the frame leaving the birds eye almost in the middle. Beautiful bird!!!!!!!, and worth the effort to make the best presentation you can.

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Jan 24, 2023 11:11:09   #
Hereford Loc: Palm Coast, FL
 
Beautiful bird and nice sharp photo. The second, but with more trimmed from the top .

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Jan 24, 2023 11:18:04   #
Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas
 
#2 for me.

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Jan 24, 2023 11:32:13   #
photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 
bajadreamer wrote:
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a quandary. I really like the OOF flowers in the BG of the lower part of the image. To try to preserve those I cropped in a more horizontal mode. Unfortunately, IMO, that made for an ungainly looking image. I then cropped in a more traditional, rule of thirds, manner but had to add canvas at the top. That gave a better composition (again IMO) but I lost a lot of the BG OOF flowers. Any thoughts? Otherwise the original image had the bird slightly brought up and the BG slightly brought down. The re-cropped version had a slight blur applied to the BG. Also the re-cropped version resulted in a slightly zoomed in bird.
This shot, a Toucan Barbet, presented me with a qu... (show quote)
The first image.

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Jan 24, 2023 11:55:54   #
Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV
 
Okay, I'm going to have to hang up my cameras, I guess! I see NO difference between all three photos!! Certainly nothing to obsess about!!??

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Jan 24, 2023 14:01:30   #
tomc601 Loc: Gilbert, AZ
 
Love how the color of the bokeh in the background mimics the color of the bird.

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Jan 24, 2023 14:47:45   #
Dalbon
 
I like them both but am leaning towards the first as it pleases my eyes better. The question should be which one do you prefer??? Your opinion should be what matters most. Great shot.
David

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Jan 24, 2023 17:29:15   #
bajadreamer Loc: Baja California Sur
 
angler wrote:
Excellent.



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Jan 24, 2023 17:29:34   #
bajadreamer Loc: Baja California Sur
 
Manglesphoto wrote:
#2 for me!!



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Jan 24, 2023 17:30:36   #
bajadreamer Loc: Baja California Sur
 
Nalu wrote:
I agree with others that there are more opportunities (endless), but what I don’t like about your crop is that you cut off some of the vegetation on the bottom of the image which to me is a bit distracting. I also think you could have left a bit more on the right side of the image, which would have left the perched bird a bit further left in the frame leaving the birds eye almost in the middle. Beautiful bird!!!!!!!, and worth the effort to make the best presentation you can.


I agree about the "hanging" ferns. I was just concentrating on the crop but no matter which view I end up with I need to clean that up.

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