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Hi Monica

One of the more important skills in photography is cropping. In fact, cropping is as important to photography as good editing is to writing, clever arranging is to music, or the intelligent use of space is to architecture. The purpose of all is to define what is important to the message… and what should be discarded.

This is a cute image… if you are into flies! As you look at it though, you start to realise there is a lot of space around the image. How much space is required though? If you wanted to, you could add considerably more blank space to the picture… or you could crop it down tight. How much is enough?

Well here is a trick to try. Look at the photo and then notice the space where you eye goes to when you are not looking directly at the flies. Chances are it is not the edge of the frame. My advice would be to determine where the extent of your interest is beyond the flies, and crop to that.

If this was my image, I would change the crop to a 4:3 ratio as opposed to the 3:2 (the traditional 35mm format) you have at the moment. I would bring in the edges in about 10% but that should be about it.

You want to be able to enjoy that space, but you don’t want the space to become a waste of space either!

Cheers,

 

Anthony

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