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Holding the Sun in the Frame
In the previous article, I discussed how much ground was needed to keep people comfortably in-frame. This was the image used. I promised to return and discuss how much (in my very opinionated opinion)...
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Cropping the Naughty Bits?
One of my favorite authors is Patrick McManus, the outdoor humorist. His writings and philosophies have had a profound influence on my life. What does good ol’ Pat have to do with today’s article? He...
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Lightroom™ Crop Overlays in Action
In the previous article, I laid bare, for the world to see, the cropping overlays in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. You can read that article here. I thought it might be fun to take an actual image through...
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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: 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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Shifty Eyes–Change the Look and Feel
Shift the angle of the eyes-shift the mood. Crop Rotation: Consider the three images above. They are all the same image of a recent shoot with model April B. The only difference the images is the...
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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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Why Not A Rule of Fourths?
Everyone who has done any studying of art and composition is well versed in the concept of the Rule of Thirds. Loyal readers of this blog should be familiar with the concept of the Rule of Fifths as...
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I Just Have 3 Words For You:
RULE OF THIRDS! The picture will take care of the other 997… Rikk Flohr © 2013
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Rule of Thirds: Aerial Dancers & Other “L"-shapes”
The Rule of Thirds compositional guide is tailor-made for the “L” shape. I find that whenever I have a subject, the aerial dancer in this case, that is predominately shaped like a right angle that...
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Rule of Thirds – Aligning Elements
Placing a key element in-frame is not always cut and dried. You may be determined to use the Rule of Thirds to place a strong graphical element. You may also be faced with the proposition of deciding...
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Sharecropping: Ben Willmore @ 7-11
We haven’t had a Sharecropping article lately. Sharecropping is our guest image feature segment and we were lucky enough to land the intrepid Ben Willmore for this edition. I had the pleasure of...
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In-Camera: Rainbow Remnant on Lake Superior
Classic Rule of 3/7 Placement Greetings, Holy Crop! readers. The road has been long, the flights frequent and the time short this past month. My apologies for the scarcity of articles. With the...
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Crop Guide Harmonies
When selecting a compositional guide for classical photographic framing many people agonize over the many choices presented in their editing software. It is no secret that I rely upon and espouse the...
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Crop Guide Harmonies (continued)
Last article explored the relationship between the various Compositional Guides provided in the Crop tool in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™. As the emails rolled in it became apparent that most have never...
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Crop Guide Harmonies (part III)
In the previous articles I discussed the location of the various Power Points of the Lightroom™ Compositional Guides found in the Crop tool. The first dealt with a standard aspect ratio image, the...
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Why Not A Rule of Fourths?
Everyone who has done any studying of art and composition is well versed in the concept of the Rule of Thirds. Loyal readers of this blog should be familiar with the concept of the Rule of Fifths as...
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I Just Have 3 Words For You:
RULE OF THIRDS! The picture will take care of the other 997… Rikk Flohr © 2013
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