Weekly Comp 283 'The Crop has it!' Qs & As

If you want to ask a question about the subject, please use this topic thread...
I will answer as quickly as possible...
I'm currently running heating cables along our supply pipes...
hopefully to avoid freezing solid as we did this last February!!
I will check this thread as I pass the machine.

I'm probably being a bit thick but I don't really understand the brief. I'm guessing that an unusual image ratio is required? Or at least not a 35mm (ie: 6 by 4) crop?

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Not necessarily...
if a 6 by 4 crop works with the title you've chosen for the picture, then fine.

But don't forget I'm looking for a picture that has been cropped to show an image that wasn't thought about when composing "in camera"...
it certainly doesn't have to be an outlandish, or unusual, image crop...
a picture that when looked at again, can go from a good picture to being a cracker by getting rid of a thin slice off the side...
or a chunk off the bottom, or both...
and ends up more or less 6 x 4...
is fine.

Don't forget, most cameras don't show the whole picture through the viewfinder, so often the picture on screen is more than you imagined when you composed the photograph.

Hope that clears it up...

Bonne chance

This is a selection of the entered images... but re-cropped as I mentioned in the comments:

Ponte Vecchio by GaryJohn






Batman and Robin by geordie01






Sunrise by kosh






Raspberry Pi Clock by GlynM






Curves by bforbes






Mia by arrondee






Crop within a crop by stopher




This is the only one I've touched the image on... two pairs of molehills are flipped which complements the line of the path in the last [original] 'frame' of the picture




Hopeless or just homeless by dannyh






On the lookout for an escape route by Noelcmn






Nanga Parbat by aliengrove






Reflections by bassman




Once I am happy that these have loaded, I am deleting your work from my machine.

Your work is now deleted

I'd not noticed the "lens", thanks for that, I'll have to revisit it.

Doesn't impact me but as I didn't enter. But seems a bit odd. Was permission sought from the photographers (copyright holders) to edit their images.

I see what was wanted now, but then it's not the winning, it's the taking part

They didn't crop them in this thread. The judge did

Oh I understand now . I would hope people don't get too hung up on it but it does seem a bit presumptious!

If anyone objects then it's easy enough for the image to be removed, but no complaints so far.

For 99.9% of people I can't see a problem with someone else (who is trying to provide a different perspective) seeing something different or achievable within someone elses uploaded images. All good AFAIC. We all learn surely

"A picture paints a thousand words"

A couple of Demo images (before and after) may have been more useful at the start of the competition so thickies like me could see exactly what was wanted rather than a "look what you you missed and this is what I meant after images"