To Crop Or Not To Crop

[Airedale1]

I would like to hear some opinions on crop v.s. no crop for this pic.

[ayotnoms]

Nice crop job. On balance, I'll take the second shot.

Horses are such beautiful animals...

[stoneylonesome]

Both are quit good, but I prefer the no crop. gives a little better prespective of place. I think the cropped one was a little to tight, didn't give the horse enough room, what might have worked is if you had cropped even tight, say just around the head with a little of horses boby.

[Hellashot]

I prefer handsome. #2 just looks too big.

[flyfisher]

I would crop a little less as it is a little tight on the left side.
But just my opion btw nice shot

[Speedie]

I would have cropped like this:

[ttsupraman93]

I love the shot...but i think with cropping, speedie hit the nail on the head. Still great shot tho

[PeaPicker]

Great shot. I am new here. How do you make the file small enough to attach?
Thanks.

[Airedale1]

Welcome to the forum. I use Photoshop to resize.

[mattym]

i prefer the crop, cropping can be a powerful tool, it can transform a picture dramatically!

Nice horse, such a lovely day, so why the long face?? (STOP GROANING AT THE BACK!!!)

[chaitu]

I prefer the cropped image, I see that the object in focus is the horse. The first image- kind of looses trying to balance the horse and the too bright background.