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Aug 28, 2020 06:19:12   #
paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah
 
I like what mflowe did.

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Aug 28, 2020 07:38:16   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Before I saw the second picture, that would have been my suggestion. Looks good!

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Aug 28, 2020 10:52:41   #
maryo Loc: Santa fe
 
looks good that way!

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Aug 28, 2020 10:56:03   #
JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles
 
#2 and I also think a little dark.

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Aug 28, 2020 11:32:45   #
PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA
 
fourlocks wrote:
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.
My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300... (show quote)


I cropped it to portrait orientation and cloned out the bud in the upper right. The flowers draw my eye in but the black background allows the hummer to become a contrasting middle tone object which also catches my eye.


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Aug 28, 2020 11:44:32   #
John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK
 
I won't quote a reply as so many have gone for a tight crop featuring the bird and the plant.
Which is just what I would have done.

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Aug 28, 2020 11:56:01   #
DebAnn Loc: Toronto
 
fourlocks wrote:
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.
My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300... (show quote)


I think the 2nd one is good. Just take out the light spots to the right of the hummingbird.

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Aug 28, 2020 15:15:38   #
Larryshuman
 
The hummer in the above is too dark.

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Aug 28, 2020 15:32:39   #
Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
 
fourlocks wrote:
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.
My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300... (show quote)


I think that the subject should be the lily and the hummingbird with a few elements to frame them. Other than that, the hummingbird is a bit too dark and gets lost in the background. So I removed some of the foliage and brightened the hummingbird and kicked up the saturation a bit to catch the eye a little more.

Looks like most people have pretty much the same idea.

You can send the prize to........


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Aug 28, 2020 15:45:54   #
Larryshuman
 
Go look at my version of this shot on page 1.

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Aug 28, 2020 16:54:10   #
craigart14
 
fourlocks wrote:
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.
My friend took this with his Nikon D7200 and a 300... (show quote)


I thought most of the elements in the photo were distracting, so I cropped it to emphasize the bird and brushed out the pod that seems to come out of nowhere upper right. I see several others had basically the same idea.



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Aug 28, 2020 17:29:05   #
Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
 
Reminds me of the saying "All great minds think alike" beyond that we're approaching trying to pick flysh*t out of pepper.

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Aug 28, 2020 18:24:09   #
Flying Three Loc: Berthoud, CO
 
My suggestion, similar, but I like more of the main stalk to give it balance


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Aug 28, 2020 18:27:30   #
Flying Three Loc: Berthoud, CO
 
Mine is similar, but I kept more of the main stalk for balance


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Aug 28, 2020 19:48:04   #
John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan
 
You got some great suggestions, some doing a little more than just cropping. Pick your favorite and it will be a great photo ready to frame.

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