Please vote for your favorite image from the "Cropped" assignment for the "People's Choice" award. The guidelines for this assignment (http://community.spiritofphotography.com/index.php?topic=548.0) were to crop an image in order to remove extraneous or distracting elements from a composition and better focus the viewers attention on the primary subject, improve the position of elements within the scene, or better balance the composition.
To vote for an image, simply select the image title in the "poll" attached at the top of this thread, and click "submit vote." NOTE: You need to be logged in to see the voting options. Voting will end at midnight, Mountain Time (GMT-07:00) on Sunday, 25 April 2010. I've included both the original and cropped versions of the submitted images so that you can see the rationale for and improvements resulting from the various crops.
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/GR6S5633.jpg)
Bird, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/crop_bird.jpg)
Bird, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10214/IMG_3183.JPG)
Sharing a Candle, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10214/IMG_3183_crop_tool.JPG)
Sharing a Candle, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10035/_DSC7353_crocus_uncropped.jpg)
Crocus, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10035/_DSC7353_crocus_cropped.jpg)
Crocus, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10003/20100416_094610_uncrop.jpg)
Pansies, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10003/20100416_094610_crop.jpg)
Pansies, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/20100416_093316_1uncropped.jpg)
Pink Pansy, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/20100416_093316_more_cropped.jpg)
Pink Pansy, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/L1040382_full.jpg)
Out of Hibernation, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/L1040382b_sm.jpg)
Out of Hibernation, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/Lilac_8123_full.jpg)
Lilacs, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/Lilac_8123b_crop.jpg)
Lilacs, B&W Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/Lilacs_8123e_sm.jpg)
Lilacs, Colorized, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/GR6S4917.jpg)
Lunch at Seaside, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/GR6S4917xxxx.jpg)
Lunch at Seaside, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10019/Acacia_uncropped_IMG_9064.JPG)
Acacia in Bloom, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10019/Acacia_Blossom_crop1_long_IMG_9064.JPG)
Acacia in Bloom, Crop 1
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10019/Acacia_Blossom1Crop3_IMG_9064.JPG)
Acacia in Bloom, Crop 2
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10079/DSC_6675_Bodie_original_1.jpg)
Bodie and Ball, Original
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10079/DSC_6675_Bodie_Cropped_1.jpg)
Bodie and Ball, Cropped
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10147/IMG_6940.jpg)
Leroy the Lab with friend!
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10147/DogPlay.jpg)
Leroy the Lab with friend!, Cropped
Thank you to everyone that participated in this assignment. Viewers are encouraged to respond to this thread describing why you like a particular image, or think it was particularly successful at meeting the guidelines of the assignment.
Keith