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Old 07-26-2010, 08:17 PM
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I really like this photo of my dogs. But I screwed up and cut off our border collie. Is there any fix or creative cropping that might make this work? This is the SOOC image.
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Old 07-26-2010, 09:43 PM
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I'm quite ok with what you've got there. You could crop so that the back ends of both dogs are out.
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Old 07-26-2010, 11:56 PM
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Alternatively, you can look for a photo in the same posture with the backside included, or you can rebuild the backside by hand.

I still like lputman's suggestion best.

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Old 07-27-2010, 06:57 PM
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So I did the crop, keeping ratio of original picture. I tried a few different crops and this is what seemed to work best. What I do like that their expressions are better seen. What I still miss is seeing all of their bodies--I just love my little guy's tail as well as the relation in size between the dogs. But I think the story for this particular shot is really how they are looking at each other.

What do you think?

I may do a storyboard as I got 2 other shots with their full bodies, slightly different positions that show full body with both looking more at the camera.

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I like it!
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Old 07-28-2010, 03:48 AM
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I like it too. It really makes the "stare down" more prevalent.
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