From the course: Kids Photography: In Parks at Play

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Cropping images can be a great fix

Cropping images can be a great fix

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Cropping images can be a great fix

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- We had such a fun time taking pictures of Zoey playing and all the toys in the park. Here little brother Sam came along, but he wasn't quite ready for the big time. So we sat him down on a blanket in some nice open shade, by open shade it means that it's solid and it is not puddled by a bunch of trees. He's sitting here and this is the first picture we grabbed. It was so sweet. He was looking right at me, he was totally engaged. I love how his little fingers are clasping that little bunny. And I love it! But, if you see up in that left hand corner, there's a little distracting element. When I come back from a shoot like this, even if I don't do anything else, I make sure to crop my photos. This is one where I think that doing a simple crop will make a world of difference. So I made a duplicate copy of it, so we can see the before and after super easy. And I'm going to crop the photo into a portrait mode instead of a landscape. We can see the difference that makes. Look at this…

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