CROP like a PRO. Wildlife photo editing tips with Janine
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Learning how to crop an image correctly can take an average wildlife photography image and make it extraordinary. In this tutorial, Janine will walk you through formats and aspect ratios, recommended pixel counts, various cropping rules, and how and when to break them.
Even when you have an image that seems at first not have been what you are looking for then a decent crop in Lightroom or Photoshop can easily salvage it. If you enjoy these wildlife photo editing tips then check out Janine's free Adobe Lightroom course at the Pangolin Photo Academy:
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Timestamps:
0:10 Intro to Wildlife Photo Editing Tips
1:00 Aspect ratios and pixel counts
3:45 Cropping for social media
10:00 Cropping Rules for wildlife photos
13:00 Fixing your composition
Janine Krayer is a Pangolin Photo Host with Pangolin Photo safaris and if you would like to see more of her images, connect on social media or join her on safari them please click on this link.
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With Janine's videos I have a geniune problem. What to concentrate on, her explanations or her smile. Like if agree. Anyway , the lessons are as much delightful for novice as me.
Hi Janine enjoyed video very much, I tend to crop most images. A golden rule with AV presentations is not to show vertical slides.
I have not thought much about pixel counts until now.
Nice earrings.
Lawrence
Brilliant advice as always. Thank you Janine.....ps. love the Africa earrings..😉😉
I try to take the picture the way I think it should be composed. Sometimes it works, sometimes not:) If not, I`ll crop- Great video!
Fine and instructive explanation of a difficult topic. Thanks Janine.😃
Great advice Janine! Thanks so much for taking time out of your schedule to help us to be better photographers.
Love this channel, defines what true "pro" photographers are versus the plethora of hobbyists that are self-baptized as pros.
This was great! This help is really timely as I start to work on my images from my recent trip with Pangolin.
Thank you Janine. Informative explanation of cropping
Another great video from a Master! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Very good Janine! I love you!
As usual and expected, very useful, informative and interesting video. Keep it up.
Great illustration, you have a great way of explaining your work, I learn a lot from you, keep it up.
Thank you Janine - most helpful!
Love this class Janine. I often use the crop tool randomly, so these tips give me lots to think about ! Ans as always so well explained: not simply saying “do it this way” but also explain the WHY. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Very informative thanks Janine. 🥂
Thank you for giving this class. You are really good att explaining the technical aspect in a calm and precise way. Well done!
Excellent pointers and review on this often abused and misused technique. As always, you explain very well. Hope all of you are doing well and staying healthy with the Omicron varient all around you.
Thank you Janine 🙏🏽❤️
thanks so much
Sections 2 and 3 are great. Thank you. Beautiful shots.
Thank you.
Dear Janine, thanks for your advices. They are no news to me but still helpful to recapulate and always get a "a yes... this or that ... ". Keep the tension and wish you a merry christmas. See you soon next year.❤
This is an excellent, comprehensive explanation. The video has a clear structure and is really well presented, thank you.
I will recommend your channel to anyone wishing to improve their wildlife photography!
Thank you! You have answered many questions I have had but didn't know how to articulate.
Incredible advice , you can really save a photo that you once thought may be for the garbage….thanks Janine👍
Really good explanation Janine, very informative and very precise thanks.
Thanks Janine, another really useful video. I haven’t given as much thought to cropping ratios, etc. Rather, I usually crop to improve the image - ie to give an animal or bird more space or to get rid of some unnecessary distraction. Will certainly give more thought to ratios in the future.
A very good review of suggestions for cropping. Even if someone doesn’t crop ever, the photos you used as examples were superb. Thank you.
This is good stuff. I am only just getting into social media, and knowing what aspect ratios work best with what sites is priceless.
Thanks Janine for a video that’s contains so much info and is so nice to watch. I’m considering buying a 45 mpx camera so as to carry less weight in prime lenses and zoom /crop in post production.
Great video instructions !
Great video!
Janine - can’t believe I only just caught up with this! Really useful with respect to the various mediums and how to make the most of an image. Thank you.
Thank you Janine, leave it to a professional for making it simple and to the point. I will now have aspect ratio in the back of my mind always.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video with a lot of food for thought. Superbly paced.
The best advice I have seen on cropping photos. Thank you for all the great videos you make.
This one really helped!... Very well intended lesson I consider....Thank you!
Great content as always, Janine!
Thanks another great video. I am one of those who almost never worry about aspect ration and end up with a hogwash.
I agree with you 100% about 3x4. Very helpful. Thank you.
This is an exquisitely done video! I think your explanations, your visuals, and content were spot on and super helpful. Thank you
Thank you! This is one of the best explanation that I've ever seen about crop! Great!!!
You're very welcome!
Many thanks for sharing such useful advice
Great video as usual
10:05 Export Settings were particularly useful
Here are some interesting tips on cropping. Some I would never have thought of.
Muy interesante. Gracias.
Thank you for sharing examples- especially topic #3. I tend to cut out Animals (accidentally) and I don’t know what to do. Thank you for giving me ideas! Very much appreciate you and Pangolin team’s hard work! Xoxo
Thank you for sharing my madness regarding wildly different aspect ratios! I'm a proponent of the ISO standard for paper sizes (e.g. A3, A4, etc.) which always has the same ratio. Any image cropped to that ratio will fit any standard ISO papers just by scaling with no need to crop. Yet, I'm aware of no camera that offers that format natively or as a selectable ratio. In the US, ISO paper sizes are hard to find, North America being stuck with a bizarre set of standards for paper that do not maintain size ratios. And, as you point out, the online world has chaotic image ratios.
things go back to the days of film -- 8 x 10, 5 x 7 (this was lovely as the ratios don't relate), 4 x 5,(all camera plates of glass or film) 3 x 5, 16 x 20 and then 20 x 24 and generally, finally, 40 x 60. Now what the heck A something or other is -- I have no idea.
I love digital as then I can create whatever size I want for the image. I tend to crop in camera and current cameras offer grid lines (rule of thirds anyway) and also level lines so straightening can be done in the viewfinder as well as composition.
This was an excellent presentation of the concept of cropping and composition.
The concepts work for wildlife, scenics, and people photography. Much discussion happens about rules but it is the word and not the concept that elicits negativity.
The idea of a "rule" simply means that over centuries of artists such as sculptors, painters and now photographers, certain ways of accomplishing a task will generally yield a more pleasing result to the viewer. The concepts of "rules" affect almost everything we do or see in life but generally, unless we are doers and not just receivers of the result of tasks we don't realize what went into the creation of what we receive until it is explained and we are open to accepting information which we previously did not have.
Very informative session. Thanks a lot...
One of my "rules" for how much space to provide for the subject to move into is to provide at least double the space the animal is moving out of. The faster the subject "appears" to be moving, the more space it needs to move into. Great video.
Brilliant presentation. Thanks so much Great information for photographers of all skill levels.
Well done Janine, extremely good explained :-)
Thank you so much.
Your tutorials are very informative 👌👌
. I find cropping images interesting and fun, it lets your imagination go. Thanks for sharing.
Good suggestions. Thank you.
Thanks for this interesting class:) Great channel and awesome video
Thanks!
Thanks. That is a great video
Glad you liked it!
Thanks so much for this video Janine. I have been using some of these suggestions for a while where cropping and aspect ratio is concerned. When taking a family portrait, for example, if you crop it, in camera, too close it wont be possible to get a 8x10 photo out of it. Things to think of when taking the photo. I want to learn more about resizing and what sizes are allowed to use in what programs before degrading the photo. It is frustrating when loading a photo to Facebook and when I see it there it’s not as sharp as what I sent. Thanks again!
I really found this helpful, particularly since I've not seen many good discussions of these topics previously. Given your caveat about smaller pixels and a predisposition to more noise, I'm wondering whether higher resolution sensors provide advantages in terms of cropping potential?
Thanks for this Janine. Very informative as always. I have set certain aspect ratios and pixel count as export preset in Lightroom so I go through them and see what fits best to the image. And when I setup a slideshow for the TV I obviously use only the 16:9 ration and the pixel required of my 4K screen (3840 long side).
Thanks for sharing!
Very Nice
This is good
Excellent
Thanks
Thank you Janine for the great video. It is really packed with information and tips that I had to learn the hard way while taking pictures. I do a lot of underwater photography and some of the tricks really apply when diving since you have a lot of challenges. Your subject tends to move, you move with the current, the water column filters out colours and clarity and you normally need to shoot close to the object since it may be less than 20 cm large. I am wondering if you have any thoughts on UW photography or know of someone that could provide some information. Thanks again.
Please share your ideas on cropping techniques in the comments down below. We would love to hear from you.
I use flipping, tilting and cropping very often to read an image left to right or look to move an animal out of image instead of move in if it photographed from right to left. This way I got a better composition, least how I see it, being everything is subjective.
Thanks for the Excellent information ! You have Beautiful eyes by the way.
The video is obviously both interesting and actual. Nevertheless I'd like to mention that the highest image size on Facebook is 2048 pixel on any side.
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Great video, thanks Janine.
At 10:00 you show Instagram as 1080 on the longest edge, but their preferred size is 1080 wide and 1350 high
Thanks for this;) Also I think cropping rules with animals is the same with humans!!
Thanks, send me a reminder
we are life in 4 minutes
I try to crop 11x14 which makes an excellent print, I lk large prints dramatic 30x40 etc
that's an excellent tip... thanks so much
Cropping is an absolute nightmare to me! Simply because of different dimensions/aspect ratios preferred by different social media platforms. I can use my original 2x3 ratio for posting on FB, but then if it is a vertical image then it might be too long and cut off a section of my image. And a 4x5 crop for Instagram isn't flattering for some of my images
I normally use the ISO ratio for printing on A4, A3 and A2
Hi. How do you get that overexposed white look with the outline of the animal showing?
Try this vid. ua-cam.com/video/IHnz9NvmK8k/v-deo.html
Although I usually prefer 2:3 , I prefer 3:4 more if a photo requires a vertical format. 2:3 in a vertical manner often look so narrow
4/3
Very instructive video. But I am wondering anything : at 8:11, you said that a 40 inch TV requires 70 Mpix image. I don't agree : a screen is limited by its own physical resolution. Even if you take a 8K Tv set with a resolution of 7680 x 4320, you will need "only" a 33 Mpix image. And as all 8K TV set have the same resolution, you will allways need 33 Mpix. This rule is obviously not applicable for prints because, resolution will be adapted by printer according the format of digital image and the format of paper.
Thanks Pierre for pointing this out. I had the same remark in mind.
Nevertheless the video itself is very good to watch, as usual.
OK it is official, This old fart of an Aussie is in love with Janine...LOL
I'd love to see the number of views the ladies of Pangolins get compared to the men of Pangolins on their videos. Between their looks and accents, I sometimes have to watch a video several times to absorb all the information. Another fine video. Enjoy your visit in the sunshine state.
What about images from m4/3 cameras? Why leave that out?
. This is one thing about the Olympus Cameras that I don’t like, the cropping method it doesn’t give you the freedom to choose the area around your subject you want.
@@lloydbligh5601 In post, you can crop to any aspect ratio you want. Wasn't that the point of this video?
I find constraining the cropping tool to a particular ratio terribly constraining. I crop to what the image dictates.
Ocd Is a serious desorder that Many people sufer from. I think one should avoid using the therm only to claim how perfectionist one Is, almost as ir was something good.
Decent photography is wasted on social media.