Crop This !

Common Lizard
Taken last week. Croppers nightmare !! Any suggestions welcome.
Poo on bark cloned out.
D7000
Sigma 150mm macro.
Monopod
500ISO 125th sec @ f14
Usual PP in PSPro
CZM
Light balance auto warm.
Thanks for your comments on the Marsh Tit
Cheers
JR

27 views at the time of writing, John, and no responses. I guess that everybody else is as puzzled as me about how to crop it. I find lizards and snakes are often a challenge, a huge long tail and no effective way of getting it in. I would like more space to the right, but otherwise I think you have already got the best you can if you want to show the whole animal. The only alternative that I can see is a selective crop, cutting the tail off totally. It seems a shame though, as the tail is there in its entirety, and so often tails are either missing or only partly regrown.

David

Common Lizard? ive never seen one! if you feel it needs a crop and i am not sure it does i would go tight to neck and head, even cut off foot bottom and have lots of dead space to right .... throw away 70% of your pixels though.

PS is it too warm ... OK not funny

I think it is fine as is John. At least the bark has a bit of interest about it

Bob

Thanks all. The reason I asked about the cropping was purely because "squares" seem out of fahion by bmost.
Cheers
JR

Fine as it is John. I am one of those who isn't keen on square format images but you have to judge each picture on its own merit. In this case; firstly, I would want to keep the whole lizard in. To my eye the body and tail occupy what I see as the top and side edges of a square so in this instance the square crop seems most appropriate. As Bob has mentioned the bark actually adds another dimension to the picture. For me it shows environment and actually helps to balance the whole image. I really like the image as presented.

I might lose a touch off the top but that is all!

Nowt wrong wi' that JR! The only other option would be to have more canvas on the right either by pulling back or by stitching two images together if not able to do that to give a more traditional landscape type crop. Lovely colours on the lizard!

Nick.

That's fine with me John, agree with Nick, great colours!

Oscar

Nothing wrong with your crop John. Its a cracking picture too.

Re cropping - don't, great as it is

Ian