Assignment #6: Extreme Crop
Nikolai
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We got nice Tilts this week. Now let's do something different.
The new assignment is all about cropping.
The main difference between this class and the previous ones is to present not one, but two images per entry: the first should depict they way you saw the subject originally (like a street scene), while the second, cropped, should show the final image.
You might wanna use a zoom lens, or do some post work.
In any case: locate the target, take a shot of it with surroundings, and then take a closeup, or trim it in post. No need to go all macro like Brian does, but I would expect the cropped version being like 10% or so of the wider one..
For basic rules and index please check out this sticky.
Let's get cropped!
The new assignment is all about cropping.
The main difference between this class and the previous ones is to present not one, but two images per entry: the first should depict they way you saw the subject originally (like a street scene), while the second, cropped, should show the final image.
You might wanna use a zoom lens, or do some post work.
In any case: locate the target, take a shot of it with surroundings, and then take a closeup, or trim it in post. No need to go all macro like Brian does, but I would expect the cropped version being like 10% or so of the wider one..
For basic rules and index please check out this sticky.
Let's get cropped!
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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I walked on the street some hours ago looking for tilted photos.
But this is good for the new assignment.
It's title is: Sideboard and pavements with shadows
Tell me about it Nikolai, please.
This is not something I meant. I didn't mean PP. I meant CROP.
Here, I stepped out a took a couple of shots (this is an example of real life crop as oppposed to purely PP one)
01: Patio: as is:
02: Patio: closer (cropped) look:
It's the same object (corner of the balcony), but me being closer actually allowed me to see the shady roof beneath it. This would not be possible just in PP...
See what I mean?
For the record: PP-only crops also count:-)
Exactly what I meant, thank you very much!
We may start calling you Ph.D. :-)
Sorry for the unconvinience Nikolai.
Not a problem, amigo mio:-)!
Although, if you want to go extreme, you'd left the inner doors only
No questions here, either!
However - it would be tres cool to "zoom" not into the car badge, but into the that antic door with graffiti, don't you think?
Kinda gives the viewer element of surprise, and serves the main purpose of this assignment: the ability to see something small behind the something big... Everybody can see the car, you know.. But that door - it's so HCB..
Another great example of real-life crop!
How often we get attracted by large bright object only to miss something dimmer and smaller, but yet possibly way more precious!
Man, I already get a feeling that this class gonna be fun!
I like it!
Here' the original:
Cropped version: It's a little too much crop for my tastes, but in order to see the bird, well, you understand!!!
Michael Corleone: Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in!
Welcome to the class!
Not bad for a start:-)
I know that 200mm is not "a birder lens", but hey, it's not about the gear, it's what you can do with it.
As I mentioned earlier, this assignment is about seeing a jewel in a pile of raw ore. Michelangelo was trimming the excessive stone from the block of marble with his chisel. We use the crop tool:-)
Glad you decided to play with us!
Well after the introductory comment about macro had to put something here
Brian V
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/
http://www.lordv.smugmug.com/
I must apologize: my first "explanatory example" with the patio corner apparently was pretty lame and not that at all "explanatory".
Here's what I think is a better instance of the "extreme cropping" which I had in mind (all pictures taken 10 minutes ago).
01: Normal view. Here's what I see when I step out on my driveway:
02: This little thingie got my attention:
03: Here's a post-processed (or post mortem:-) crop.
As it's easy to see, the original 8mp image does not provide enough resolution:
04: Now that we actually saw it, we can use some real-time cropping: lens zoom or, in my case, "foot" zoom to get the crop we want:
HTH
Great examples and awesome pictures!
That book publishing dude should pay you top dollar, not a measly "credit".
I agree with Nikolai. Absolutelly. Fantastic macros. Brian is an expert in macros
You did not only zoom by foot, did you ?
It looks that you have done both: zoom with the lens and zoom by foot.
It looks you have used a different lens for the leave: a zoom or a prime at 100/200/250 mm ...
I was not aware - my fault - of this extreme crop/zoom.
Tomorrow ...
A little bit of lens zooming (17mm at normal view, 68mm at closeup), yes, but only because I didn't want to lay myself flat on a h-h-h-hot californian asphalt:-). Otherwise it was the same 17-85 IS USM.
No need to apologize. You did good with that plaza!
And we have the whole Sunday and whole week in front of us, no need to rush
Not much of a crop, but this guy caught me by suprise, I was actually shooting something else and then I seen this guy right in front of me! If I would of thought about the challenge I would of took a shot zoomed all the way out also, but this is full zoom at 150mm (300mm @ 35mm film scale).
cropped in PS
douglas
It means that you did not like the 3 persons.
Actually it's a different concept of crop.
I didn't say that:-)
It's simply not what I meant when I selected "Extreme Crop" as a theme
These aren't fresh but they stand out in my mind of examples of how big a difference a crop can make.
I sort of discovered this one by mistake while working on an enlarged version in PS:
Here's an original of mine:
and a great crop of Ginger's:
This crop isn't so extreme, but I think it really makes the shot. It was Andy's suggestion on the Whipping Post:
Now I'm inspired. Think I'll go out looking for something new to crop.
She only just hung on, the horse didn't seem too happy...
As can be seen in the crop...
Stan
I would like to know because of the shots I'll be doing tomorrow for this thread.
I hope I made myself clear.
I put it in more telegraphic way:
I have seen crops of the same picture.
Do they fit the general ideia of the concept extreme crop ?
Sorry folks.