Guilty of Over-Cropping?

[WestLothian]

Sampling the new "Robin Mixture" from the pet shop.

Cropped to this to show-off feather detail at the expense of context?
(Click for 100% for best effect.)


Robins can adopt much more interesting poses if you are patient.
(Normally they select an out of focus piece of vegetation to stand behind like this one did!) He didn't count on me photoshopping most of it away.

[Fourwings]

I would say not. The crop on this image works for me as it enhances detail considerably.

We are all guilty of over-cropping at times.

[eeyore]

I agree with fourwings , any crop that works compositionally is fine so long as you have sufficient image size left for the purpose for which it is used - for web display that allows for huge crops whilst for printing the average DSLR shot can be cropped by about 50% without major problems

[Ollie]

I definitely prefer the heavier cropped Robin image as there is more detail in the bird and it also removes some of the feeding tray which to my eye is not aesthetically pleasing.
Roger

[WestLothian]

Thanks for looking.

I crop for geometry, symmetry, thirds rules, vanishing points ..........

It's sometimes better just doing the finger and thumb rectangle and going for it !