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max · Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 154

What do you think?. Should they be accepted. Please stop by and have your say reviewer. I think the kangaroo is a beautiful shot

JTeffects · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 294

the kagaroos ears are cut off, so are its paws (?).......

Erin · Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 431

The concert shot .. I'm just not keen on the heads in this shot - and the top is not cropped straight. Here's my suggestion for a cropping fix on the concert image .. it helps a little

The kangaroo image has a couple problems - 1, body parts are chopped off .. and 2, the way the kangaroo is laying I think this would be better as a landscape shot. But in either case, the cropped ears and legs look "unfinished"

I should also add that the lighting could be improved for the kangaroo shot as well - a lot of harsh shadows in there

screenfx · Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 171 Location: Colorado

If you consider how stock photos are used I think you will have a better understanding of the problems with the kangaroo shot. The kangaroo is cropped off on 3 out of the 4 sides of the image. If a person was going to use an image in a website or a publication it would be ok for one or maybe two sides of it to be cropped. With cropping on a single side, the image could be placed at the edge of a page and still work. With two sides cropped it could still be used in the corner of a page with the cropped sides facing the side and either the top or bottom. With 3 sides missing it would be very difficult to use an image like this and still keep good composition.

Don't get discouraged. Good photography isn't neccesarily good stock photography. Look in magazines and web pages and see what works and dosn't work. --Good luck.

max · Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 154

Thanks for stopping in guys (Erin), i wasn't really looking at the ears and paws, just over all i thought is was a good picture, lol and it took some effort to get that little bugger too.. The concert one, i was hoping for a little degree in difficulty, and how did Erin crop the top of the concert picture so straight?

HJahangiri · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 327

StuartE · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:20 pm

Max, she rotated it a little, probably while cropping in Photoshop 7 or CS - it's just a case of dragging a corner to line things up... uneven lines that should be straight, like the top of a stage, or the edge of a table, or worse still, the horizon, make a photograph 'view' as uncomfortable - develop an eye for that kind of detail and you'll go a long way to improving your photography...

Cheers,
Stuart

max · Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 154

Thanks Stuart, i did abit of playing around and have worked it out, thanks for your advice