This two week challenge is about taking “overview” images and then cropping out the parts that are truly interesting. This could be several different crops for a larger “overview” image.
A great example is the instagram account of andrewoptics about “What I See versus What I Take” https://www.instagram.com/p/DJCJ9Umte0b/?hl=en&img_index=1. Scroll through the top images.
The idea is to post an “overview” image, followed by one or several crops showing photogenic details.
Finding interesting compositions in a landscape. Taken from the ridge in Silver Springs. The clouds made for interesting bright and shaded areas. I liked the brightly lit lookout against the shaded appartment tower nestled in the Bowness Park tree canopy.
Here is the detail. With so many pixels on the sensors in modern cameras you can afford to crop quite a bit.
Flower landscape taken in the Zoo’s Conservatory.
Red and white detail balanced diagonally
A door above the farmer’s market
after cropping
a view near the Alyth yard
Great find Della. I like this crop as a pure abstract.
I’m travelling this week and only have a 35mm 1.4 lens on my R5. There are a lot of pixels to crop in with. This is an extreme example. Original in the first comment.
Edited using Lightroom on my iPad.
Starter image
Wow, that is an extreme crop
Tried this technique on Bumblebees in my backyard.
Cropped and adjusted the exposure in Photoshop Elements
Amazing detail in the crop Fred.
I went for a walkabout at the Silver Springs Botanical Gardens to enjoy the flowers and ambiance. It was wonderful. Lots of flowers still blooming in a riot of colors. I took this one at F6.3, FL 62mm, S 1/640, ISO 320. Then I saw the bumble bee inside and that became my picture within a picture.
Here is my picture within a picture. I don’t know how to draw a red line around it in the original but see if you can find it there!
A more normal overshoot and crop. I was watching cliff divers today from above them. Not knowing their movement I overshot the site. I cropped to 4×5 eliniating left and right mostly that didn’t add to the story. Original in comments
The original
Not sure where the dragonfly was going to, so had to overshoot.
and the crop
Another shot taken while kayaking in Glenmore
The crop
The paddlers were out on the Glenmore Reservoir on Saturday.
Captured this image of a Outrigger Canoe with 6 paddlers.
Cropped and adjusted in Photoshop Elements.
Original photo in the comments.
Original
Diamond Beach Iceland. After the glaciers calve they travel through the lagoon and down the river to the ocean where they are then washed up on the beach by the waves.
Taken with my iphone.
Original picture.
Taken with my iphone.
A short dead-end street leading unto a children’s playground. When I drive to my daughter’s I slow down to 5km/hr. with a smile on my face as a shout from the past sings in my head “CAR!!!”. The neighbourhood children use the cul-de-sac for road hockey games. They usually have a net permanently parked there. Would have been a great shot full frame, I think, if there had been a game on which I think I could have then cropped. Took the shot anyway and made the best of it.
F/35, 1/1000 sec., ISO 100
The uncropped
The Shaganappi Golf Course. I had my back-up camera/lens combo with me. Thought this may make a decent subject for this session’s challenge. In retrospect, backing up to take in more of the city beyond and uncropped would have made a more interesting shot. But here we are…
F/9, 1/100 sec., ISO 100
and the uncropped
Downtown Scaffolding patterns
f2.2 1/400 sec iso 50 SamsungA71
Detail of Scaffolding patterns
tweaked contrast and brightness as well as cropped
One of many of my attempts to get a sharp photo of a bee on a flower.. finally caught one standing still! This is the overshoot to try and catch this guy..
And this crop shows finally success in the quest for a clear bee! Post editing in LRC