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photoblog image Early Spring Field

Early Spring Field

Should I crop the sun-flared bottom?

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Lizz Wright - Hit The Ground
The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water

Fields are often passed on An Island Walk.  They  come in a variety of stages with colours changing from this, to green and then any colour imaginable.

Early Spring Field

Should I crop the sun-flared bottom?

Click to Play:
Lizz Wright - Hit The Ground
The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water

Fields are often passed on An Island Walk.  They  come in a variety of stages with colours changing from this, to green and then any colour imaginable.

comments (11)

  • Ray
  • Thailand
  • 15 Jun 2009, 03:30
Hell, No!

Crop the horizon, instead.

Fine pastoral, Mary.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Ray. No cropping wins.
No.. leave it in Mary. The tractor is nicely postioned on one the invisible thirds at the moment and cropping would alter the composition. If you can, clone it out but its too insignificant to worry. What's going to be the crop in nthe field?
Mary MacADNski: I don't know that the crop will be. I don't clone so will leave as is.
  • zed
  • Australia
  • 15 Jun 2009, 08:05
perhaps a bit off the top and bottom, but it looks fine as it is Mary
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, zed.
  • Chris
  • England
  • 15 Jun 2009, 08:41
I think I would have Mary
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Chris.
Surely not Mary! This farmer is doing a hell of a job.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Richard. There were two tractors. One is off camera at this shot.
  • Ginnie
  • Atlanta, GA, United States
  • 15 Jun 2009, 12:09
If you did anything, Mary, it would be to clone it out but NOT cropped. You need all that field, IMHO, to give the immense scale for this wee tractor!
Mary MacADNski: I like your answer the best. I don't clone so I will not do anything. I did want to show the scale of the tractor (there were actually two) in the field.
Crop? Not in my opinion. And instead of cloning, you might try a light desaturation of the worst of the flare - you might not have to clone. Well seen, Mary. Cheers.
Mary MacADNski: I don't clone or desaturate, only crop or straighten. Sounds scientific, eh? LOL
I probably wouldn't have noticed the flare Mary if you hadn't mentioned it because the composition is so strong and the different direction of the furrows holds ones attention.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Brian. I will leavie it.
  • Louis
  • South Africa
  • 15 Jun 2009, 18:09
This hill or a very similar one, has featured on Mary's tour of the island before - with growth on it.

If that is so, get those others and try to crop them to the same perspective, then do a nice collage.

But do not crop the flare, except if you are going to enter it in a photo competition. Flare may not be wanted, but I think the composed balance is more important.
Mary MacADNski: Yes, last year I showed this hill through the season. One of the tractors stopped while I was there and I told them that. I like your suggestion.
Crop out the sky and trees and crop the bottom to just below the tractor. Well that's what I would dogrin
Mary MacADNski: Good suggestion.
hey, nice shot
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Pravin. All that day, everywhere I looked there were tractors on the land.

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