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Crop Shop: Recognizing & Cropping to Horizontal Elements
Just a quick concept for today’s post: Identifying the Horizontal and accentuating it through the crop. This is the raw capture from a recent studio shoot. Model Miss Maly, adorned in full costume,...
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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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Crop Shop: Hiking in Desolation
Greetings Holy Crop! fans. October was a barren month for posts to Holy Crop! My apologies. A couple of unbidden yet most welcome gigs intervened and I found myself neglectful. Hopefully November will...
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Crop Shop: When Rules Breakdown
Do extreme aspect ratios diminish or even negate important compositional rules like the Rule of Thirds? Sometimes. I was working with 5:1 panoramic crops thinking about an upcoming article on...
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Crop Shop: Badlands Relic
Playing the thirds against the fifths Greetings Holy Crop! fans, I’ve just returned from teaching my Badlands Winter Workshop at Badlands National Park. The Queen of the Crop and I took 8 photographers...
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Crop Shop: Aftermath
Greetings Croppers. The Cropist has been AWOL again, traveling and shooting. It is time to get back to cropping. Here is a quickie to whet your cropping appetite. We haven’t had a Crop Shop in a while...
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Crop Shop: 10/3 Lizard at Valley of the Gods
When 3:1 isn’t enough and 4:1 is too much… This was the lizard as presented to me in the wild. I didn’t have enough lens to get closer and fill the frame. He or she was a nervous little guy or gal and...
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Crop Shop: Badger in the Grass
“Sometimes deciding upon the perfect crop means tossing away an equally valid version.” Badger in the Grass is a photograph from my recent workshop to Badlands National Park. As an instructor on the...
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3.33:1 — Crop Ratio Revisited: Against the Wind
In a previous article, I extolled the virtues of the 10/3 or 3.33:1 Ratio for cropping a longer panoramic view. The other day while shooting with my 4:3 aspect ratio Canon G10 I found myself in a...
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Crop Shop: Blast From the Past: 2005 Cropping 3/5
I snapped this shot of a fool-hardy casual photographer way back in 2005 with my first DSLR (Canon 20D). As I was resurrecting this image the other day, I got to thinking about the in-camera framing...
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Fibonacci Sequence: Peril on the High Seas
For the latest concept image by Model Alemari and myself, the Fibonacci Sequence drove the final crop (above). You can see the deconstruction of this image at the Fleeting Glimpse Images blog here. The...
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Lightroom™ Compositional Guides: Triangles
A look at one of the more obscure compositional guides in the Lightroom Crop Tool. The picture show above is a cropped version of larger capture. It was composed after capture in-software,...
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Crop Shop: A Tale of Two Squirrels
Submitted for your approval, two crops from one image of a squirrel. He is not a particularly sinister squirrel (well in one image he is if we take a literal archaic definition of Sinister: on the...
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Crop Shop: Follow-up Squirrel
In my previous article, regarding the placement of the squirrel in relation to the edge of a frame, there were some interesting comments. As I responded in the comment section, I realized that I had...
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Crop Shop: Bison Mystery or Balance?
Here is an original in-camera framing on shot I took recently during my Western road trip. This American Bison stepped out of the mist and climbed the hill near the mud volcanoes of Yellowstone...
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Crop Shop: Antenna Management for Better Reception
Some subjects have, well, for lack of a better word, appendages. Sometimes those appendages are vitally important to the subject. It just wouldn’t look right if you chopped them off-even though they...
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Cropping Tricks in PS
Jack Nack shared this video of Bryan O’Neil Hughes with some Cropping Tricks in Photoshop. Check it out. Rikk Flohr © 2013
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Fibonacci Sequence: Peril on the High Seas
For the latest concept image by Model Alemari and myself, the Fibonacci Sequence drove the final crop (above). You can see the deconstruction of this image at the Fleeting Glimpse Images blog here. The...
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Lightroom™ Compositional Guides: Triangles
A look at one of the more obscure compositional guides in the Lightroom Crop Tool. The picture show above is a cropped version of larger capture. It was composed after capture in-software,...
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Crop Shop: A Tale of Two Squirrels
Submitted for your approval, two crops from one image of a squirrel. He is not a particularly sinister squirrel (well in one image he is if we take a literal archaic definition of Sinister: on the...
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