Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tough call the original crop certainly feels most successful due to the color balance found in the browns and greens of the background repeating in the bird more of the brown in the square works best for my eyes had you not discussed the ruffled feathers and their cause I'd stick with the square having learned of the cause my attention has been and will forever be drawn to reason I tend to prefer seeing both 'shoulders' in the horizontal to losing the one in the vertical Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 15, 2008, at 10:24 PM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: > I wrote earlier today about cropping options for the Merlin photo I > posted last eveing: > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/falconidae/merl03.html > > I've tweaked the colors a bit and come up with a couple of > alternate crops. I'd appreciate the opinions of this learned group > about the various crops: > > Vertical: > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/merl03a.html > > Horizontal: > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/merl03b.html > > and the original crop, with tweaked colors: > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/merl03c.html > > BTW, these crops are about 25% of the original file. Gotta love > the detail the APO-Telyt puts on a sensor. All opinions welcome. > > Doug Herr > Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information