slice & dice Photo

Kaufeetime · 10-30-2009, 02:37 PM

I took this photo the other day at the zoo, but I just couldn’t get the fuzzy whats-its to cooperate and pose like I want. I like the photo, but don’t know where, what, how to crop the photo. What do you suggest? If you could show me examples.
Kaufeetime
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**Damn Brit** · 10-30-2009, 11:56 PM

Moved to Photo Critique.
First of all, why do you want to crop it, what elements do you want to eliminate from the photograph?
The only thing I can see that you might want to remove is the feeding cup as that identifies the picture as an image of captive animals but it would be hard to crop that out without making the lemurs look squashed in to the frame. Apart from that they fill the frame too much for you to crop on an artistic basis. The diagonal branch helps the composition and even though your subjects are centered, the variety of poses balances it out. I think you already have the best you could get from this one and it's not too shabby.

Try googling composition and rule of thirds. Cropping should be used as fine tuning not a solution. Get the composition right and use cropping to tidy up the edges.

Kaufeetime · 10-31-2009, 07:11 AM

First of all, I would eliminate the extra space on the right.
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*wallyb* · 10-31-2009, 10:44 AM

I would prefer a wider crop. I cloned out the bit of the water bucket (but not the straps, you can use your imagination to what those would be in the wild) and adjusted the tones a little.

MoparFreak69 · 10-31-2009, 10:49 AM

I agree with DB on this one. I don't really feel there is much room for cropping without taking away from what is there (maybe just a touch on the right to remove the lettuce). The bowl is an eyesore and maybe you could try photoshopping it out but other than that I think it is a very fun and good shot. They are Lemurs by the way. Ever saw Madagascar?