What's the take on this picture? Crop and rotate so the building in the background is straight up or leave as is (maybe with a little cropping). Rotating removes some of the face on the right.
I have learned in general I need to zoom out a bit. Need to leave some room for slight rotations, crops, and side wrap on canvas prints.
It's unfortunate that the girl on the right is so cut off, and cutting off more makes it worse IMO.
What do you think about some major editing to replace the background and some cropping on the left and top only?View attachment 1070127
iPhone from my D750 with, iirc, an old Nikon 70-210 F4, from the side of the road,View attachment 1070461 in the snow
Great capture! But shots of wildlife are almost never cropped the best - it's hard enough to get the moment of action and have it in focus.
To me, the pelican is the obvious subject and shouldn't have competition from a large area of (beautifully colored) sky; plus there is the convention of action going INTO the scene. Add to that the dramatic wing spread up to the left, and it impels me to crop this image to emphasize the bird, something like this:
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No critique to offer on the snowflake, just wondering what makes the nicely varied background?
Definitely not easy to capture as the pelican didnt give me much notice as he was coming in for a landing. I didnt want to remove the colors that the sunset was giving to the left otherwise I would have cropped it closer to 1:1. Kinda tough getting the photo right when you only have seconds at best to shoot. Still I love shooting pelicans.
I like Pelicans too. I like the pic a lot, but agree to the cropping. I played with your photo a bit to just look at a cropped version. Hope you don't mind as it was good to take a little break from work.View attachment 1101206
Its no problem. My photo is called "The Landing" so cropping it would change what the photo is saying.