As someone who's very new to this, I probably have little right to comment, but this comparison caught my attention as I've been playing with macros a lot recently. I very much prefer the cropped version. The colors are more intense, the excess background adds nothing to the first and isn't missed in the second. I do wonder, however, if it would have been even better slightly less cropped to have less of the flower cut off. That might just be me missing one of the finer points of composition, though. :-)
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