Crop Question

evanlavine

Wondering which works better here, the panoramic or the regular crop?

Thanks,

Evan

thonsu

Panoramic. The homogeneous sky in the regular crop doesn't seem to blend with the chaotic foreground. Although, perhaps, you could raise the top of the panoramic crop to get the tops of the trees in there.

Dwayne Oakes

Nice art work !

In this case its not about which comp is better as the non crop comp is perfect. It is about color balance.
As the sky has no color it throws the image out of balance. Brush tools in pp can add a splash
of color to areas of your choice.

Once some color is added to the sky the balance of the image is restored. I think you
where trying to get the same results with pano crop at the expense of the comp if that
makes sense. Also I dodge (lightened) the dark area in the bottom right to add some
balance to the light. Hope this helps and thanks for posting !

http://dwayne-oakes.artistwebsites.com/

Take care,
Dwayne Oakes

evanlavine

thank you both very much! Dwayne, you are correct in why I didn't want to crop it to begin with and why I thought I needed to. I like what you have done and I will go back to my original and play some more with it! Thonsu, I appreciate your time, too!!!

cheers,
evan