To crop or not to crop?

Take a little off the top like Flo said.

I'd remove everything above the horiz dark cloud, leaving just a little sky above the cloud.

Try the pano version with a black mat. Very striking.

Looks pretty amazing as is. I would only accept the crop if as a result of paper print size.

no crop...the colour adds to the picture!

Thanks for the input everyone! I'm gonna try both.

No crop, but if you did I would only go just a little into the top of the photo. I would not go past that first dark cloud that stretches across the frame. Maybe not even past the first smaller cloud on the left of the photo. Nice shot.

No Crop. Everything is perfectly aligned in the first pic. In the cropped version, eliminated the sky, puts the horizon in the middle of the image, cutting it in half. (If you can't help it, you don't want to cut the image in half with the horizon.) In landscapes you have afford to have an expanse of sky. And this particular photo, you have clouds and the sky color graduating from light to dark adding interest. Again. No crop. Not even a little. LOL

Flo wrote in post #11658175
Beauty......

I would be tempted to crop JUST below that dark cloud..no more.

Nice capture!

I have to agree with Flo

I put the recropped version on the front page. I like both of them.

kjonnnn wrote in post #11659766
No Crop. Everything is perfectly aligned in the first pic. In the cropped version, eliminated the sky, puts the horizon in the middle of the image, cutting it in half. (If you can't help it, you don't want to cut the image in half with the horizon.) In landscapes you have afford to have an expanse of sky. And this particular photo, you have clouds and the sky color graduating from light to dark adding interest. Again. No crop. Not even a little. LOL

I thought of that as I mentioned the crop, but for this photo, I think its busy enough with shadows to hold its own with the photo halved.I think either way this one goes it works wonderfully

Regarding your:

"Cropped" version - simply doesn't work. What is it, a landscape or a bunch of sticks lined up? At best, it's an "out of context" image...

"Recropped" version - avoid such image by doing "50/50," that is, splitting the sky and the water just about half way.

"Uncropped" original version - this is more balanced and with a more interesting color mixed in. I'd just crop a bit at the top and let it go at that.

if it was mine, i would crop it like this. leaving in the last dark cloud gives it a little more sky room and also a bit of balance. Also cropped out the water to bring the pier back down keeping it from being center. great photo by the way

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sct, I did a crop like that too and it looked nice but I put the cropping of what others said to try.

So weird, I spent more thinking about the damn crop than the photo itself lol.