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Kris Haskins 		 

Another composition question


 
  Evening in the sun
Evening in the sun
Ducks on a pond. How should it be cropped?

Kris Haskins

  
 
I'm just wondering if I should crop the top and/or bottom out of the picture? I can't decide.


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June 04, 2001

 

Jeff S. Kennedy 		  I think I would crop some but not all. Cropping all of the fore and background would make the birds seemed cramped and make the overall image lose its depth.


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June 04, 2001

 

Dawn 		  I wouldn't crop it at all.


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June 07, 2001

 

John A. Lind 		  If I cropped any, it would be a _slight_ amount from the top and bottom to give it a 2:3 aspect ratio. However, your shore lines are very nearly on the "rule of thirds" lines making them stronger than they would be elsewhere; you don't want either one dead center. The way it is you have a well defined foreground, middle and background.

-- John


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June 07, 2001

 

Kris Haskins 		 
 
 
Thank you all for your input, I really like having help :).

I decided to take a little off the top. This brings the uppermost ducks close to the top 'line of thirds'. I don't think that removing the top removed too much depth, as it was mostly tonally flat and dark. I couldn't remove to forground without altering the entire mood of the image. The calm water is the only indication that this entire ground of ducks has just crashed into a peaceful pond.

Thanks again!


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June 11, 2001

 
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