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Three Families of Crop: Portrait
The first of the Three Families of Crop mentioned in the Aspect Ratio Article is Portrait. Portrait crops are defined as such: An Aspect Ratio whose orientation has more pixels vertically than...
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Three Families of Crop: Dealer’s Choice!
Sometimes, an image teases us into cropping it more than one way. “… don’t stop at just one crop!” Panoramic-style Crop It is easy, as photographers to get locked into a single crop or cropping family....
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Vertical Leap
Turning the Panoramic Crop on its Ear! In a previous article, The Panoramic Crop: Landscape with Attitude, we talked about crops where the resultant image was twice or more as wide as it is tall....
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Vertical Leap (revisited)
A Case for the Vertical Panoramic Crop In the article Vertical Leap, I discussed the vertical panorama. Due to a couple of queries, I thought I might take a moment and discuss what went on in my mind...
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Vertical Leap! TO THE EXTREME!!! Apparently Not!
Are five exclamation points enough for one title? In my last article, I discussed the concept of cropping for aesthetics and what was the most radical aesthetically-motivated crop in my library. As it...
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On-Line Gallery Thumbnails–Evil Crops Destroying Your Creative Vision
I had some high hopes recently that Facebook had some kind of cool Thumbnail Cropping intelligence in its galleries. In a previous article, Facebook came up with a crop wildly different yet every bit...
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Crop Shop: Street Performer
Greetings croplings! I am back from my two-week stint as the Lightroom/Printing Guru at the Photoshop & You event in San Francisco. While there, they gave me a day off and I spent it as most...
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Long or Wide?
The subject is the same but the story is different. Firstly, apologies gentle readers. I have been traveling. I have been remiss. A wedding, the Presentation Summit and the desert Southwest of the...
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Facebook – Added Impact for Landscape and Panoramically Cropped Images
In my last article, I discussed the new “Reposition Image” option for photos displayed on your Facebook Timeline. Whether you are a fan of Timeline or no, you can take advantage of this new feature:...
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Shifty Eyes–Change the Look and Feel
Shift the angle of the eyes-shift the mood. Crop Rotation: Consider the three images above. They are all the same image of a recent shoot with model April B. The only difference the images is the...
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Crop Guide Harmonies (part III)
In the previous articles I discussed the location of the various Power Points of the Lightroom™ Compositional Guides found in the Crop tool. The first dealt with a standard aspect ratio image, the...
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Three Families of Crop: Dealer’s Choice!
Sometimes, an image teases us into cropping it more than one way. “… don’t stop at just one crop!” Panoramic-style Crop It is easy, as photographers to get locked into a single crop or cropping family....
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Vertical Leap
Turning the Panoramic Crop on its Ear! In a previous article, The Panoramic Crop: Landscape with Attitude, we talked about crops where the resultant image was twice or more as wide as it is tall....
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Vertical Leap (revisited)
A Case for the Vertical Panoramic Crop In the article Vertical Leap, I discussed the vertical panorama. Due to a couple of queries, I thought I might take a moment and discuss what went on in my mind...
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Vertical Leap! TO THE EXTREME!!! Apparently Not!
Are five exclamation points enough for one title? In my last article, I discussed the concept of cropping for aesthetics and what was the most radical aesthetically-motivated crop in my library. As it...
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On-Line Gallery Thumbnails–Evil Crops Destroying Your Creative Vision
I had some high hopes recently that Facebook had some kind of cool Thumbnail Cropping intelligence in its galleries. In a previous article, Facebook came up with a crop wildly different yet every bit...
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Crop Shop: Street Performer
Greetings croplings! I am back from my two-week stint as the Lightroom/Printing Guru at the Photoshop & You event in San Francisco. While there, they gave me a day off and I spent it as most...
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Long or Wide?
The subject is the same but the story is different. Firstly, apologies gentle readers. I have been traveling. I have been remiss. A wedding, the Presentation Summit and the desert Southwest of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Facebook – Added Impact for Landscape and Panoramically Cropped Images
In my last article, I discussed the new “Reposition Image” option for photos displayed on your Facebook Timeline. Whether you are a fan of Timeline or no, you can take advantage of this new feature:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shifty Eyes–Change the Look and Feel
Shift the angle of the eyes-shift the mood. Crop Rotation: Consider the three images above. They are all the same image of a recent shoot with model April B. The only difference the images is the...
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