[alastair_hm]

Which do you like more the close crop or the full version?


http://sicklittlemonkey.deviantart.com/a...l-63055458


http://sicklittlemonkey.deviantart.com/a...l-63055535

[matthew]

I prefer the second one for its emphasis on the diagonal bands of light and dark. The first one is also good, but as someone who doesn't really "get" nature photographs, I find it doesn't have a strong subject.

[Rabid Penguin]

I'm gonna go with the cropped one.

[Wedding Shooter]

Cropped.

[Toad]

I go with the cropped - but only because there is not much of interest in the top fifth of the uncropped one - generally I like to see context in natire shots.

[Rabid Penguin]

I personally would actually crop it like this, to capture the water splashing on the rocks below.

[alastair_hm]

I personally would actually crop it like this, to capture the water splashing on the rocks below.
http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images...l_crop.jpg

That's good too, maybe I should post the original and we could have a crop party

[wulinka]

I like the first crop, or Rabid's actually, both seem more balanced than the longer one

[Rabid Penguin]

does this mean i win?

[matthew]

I actually like the original. I might crop it to exclude the blown out sky, but keep the top of the tumbledown rock wall.

[alastair_hm]

Amazing the number of different results that can come out of one picture just depending on how it is cropped.