"If your pictures are not good enough, then you're not close enough," said Robert Capa, the photojournalist during World War II.
You know the place: it's a nice picture, but that bike in the background that road ... it can be very distracting in the photo.
On this page a few comments about making the right cut for photographing.
Walk toward the subject to fit the screen on the photo. Can not walk up to the topic, use a telephoto lens!
Often it is a catchy slice of a small part of everything there is to see, more fascinating than an overview.
Grab your digital camera and experiment with this photo tip!
Note: crop does use the same technique in your photo editing program, but is intended to eliminate unnecessary or disturbing details along the edges of an image to cut and not a detail of the whole meet. Be aware that if you do the latter, that you want a picture with far fewer pixels means that at about the same final format (for example, a print on A4) less "sharp" will be.
A photo cropping or cutting?
If you want to crop a photo, is that Picasa, free photo editing program from Google.
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