I posted before and after on this to see if I have the cropping down pretty well. The bee came out nice but I was amazing how much pollen these bees carry. I was wondering how I am doing with cropping.
90D 180 macro no flash. 1/640 sec f/14 iso 800
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Dean, this is a nice shot of the bee. Yes, they can really load down with the pollen. I think the vertical crop works (it might be a tad close on the left side, and might could crop in a bit on the right, but not much. I also see a horizonal shot here as well, just cropping to off center the bee and flower some and a bit off the bottom. I think if you were to put a little more contrast into just the bee, that would make him stand out a bit more. A very nice shot with great details.
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Dean, the bee and the flower look great. Your vertical crop works well at showing off all of the pollen. Given the full frame, my inclination would be to go for a square crop (or maybe 4x5), showing all of the flower, with the extra space to the right, although a square crop with the bee and flowered centered would give them great stability.
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I like the crop a lot better Dean; eliminates unnecessary background. Great detail in the bee; I won’t see any in CT for a few more weeks until my rhododendrons bloom, then I’ll have plenty. Yes, mine are usually covered head to toe with pollen too.
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Hello Dean!
Beatifull picture. It’s amazing how much polen they can carry! I like how focused on the task she looks.
I would crop a bit more on the bottom, less on the sides. Keeping the flowe in the background, I like the composition of the two flowers repeating shapes.
Thanks for sharing
Thank Juan, Jim, and Mark. I will try a square crop on this although I am not a big fan of that size. However, maybe I should thought to that because with this kind of subject it is really the way to go. Usually I stay ax 4x5 for most portrait cropping, maybe for printing. I do pick the option in Photoshop not to delete the crop when I do. Lightroom keeps it anyway so I try to just crop there.