To crop or not to crop

[moi]

This picture of heartsease was taken on a sunny day. The flower was in amongst others outside a restaurant in a tub.I used automatic and super macro on my Fuji FInepix.
My aim was to use the available sunlight and highlight the 'inner face' of the flower. Because of the 'other flower' to the right and the light/shade on the foliage, I decided not to crop-keeping the 'hint' of the colour and the shape in the flower on the right and framing with the foliage.
Was I right not to crop?

[Johnsohk]

I see no need to crop as the second flower complements the composition and puts the main subject nicely off center.
You could just do some cloning out of the distracting highlights at the top.

[moi]

Thsnks John. When I get 'Photoshop' will try.

[wulf]

Did you not crop at all? Most cameras take rectangular pictures rather than square ones. The reason I ask is that, if not cropping in closer, I would be inclined to move the frame to the right, losing a bit of the foliage on the left and showing all of the background flower as well rather than truncating it. That would put the main subject clearly off-centre, which often works well as a compositional device.

That, of course, depends on what detail is present in the shot that came from your camera.

Wulf

ps. You could always look into The Gimp rather than waiting for Photoshop

[moi]

Edited the original 'in the camera' to get rid of the extraneous foliage (from the tub) to the right-that's all of the flower I could get in.
Cropped it again but don't love it!
Thanks for 'the Gimp' ref. Had a quick look and will try it out.
Gracias. )

[wulf]

I don't like the idea of editing pictures in-camera because the screen is relatively tiny and it closes down options later. I sometimes delete a few pictures in-camera if I have taken a lot of set up shots and have a long shooting session ahead of me but generally leave all those decisions to later.

FWIW, I prefer the second crop.

Wulf

[moi]

Thanks Wulf-yes-used the 'in camera' option when I started with digital a few months ago. This flower pic. was one of those 'victims'. I know better now and, as you say, delete really bad shots 'in camera' and save the rest to download properly.
Many thanks for the feedback and the time taken.