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Greylag geese take flight near sunset at the Hongshankou Reservoir in Inner Mongolia. I edited this picture only slightly; it's cropped at 100 percent. I just completed an eight-day trip to Lake Wuliangsu and areas near that important northern Chinese wetland.
Device: Nikon D300
Lens: VR 600mm F/4G
Focal length: 850mm
VR: OFF
Aperture: F/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1250s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: -0.7EV
Metering: Center-Weighted
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 200
Hi Craig, Interesting image. What do you mean by a 100% crop?
I love 6 of the 7 wing positions. Losing the top/front bird in the right group of three would be just fine with me. EXP and SH look good. The merge with the horizon line is mildly problematic.
Nice capture on the entire group! Tough when you have so many birds in the frame....you did well!
I am curious too...what does 100% crop mean?
Hello and thanks for the comments. "100% crop" means that I didn't crop out any part of the photo. As far as cutting is concerned, the shot is 100% as my camera captured it. Is there another way to express my meaning?
Craig - I'm not sure if this is proper, but when I leave an image uncropped, straight out of the camera I refer to it as "full frame". When I say "100% crop" I usually mean that I cropped the image down to display a group of actual pixels (usually to show some detail clearly on the web) - i.e. no re-sampling / resizing of the original - just lots of cropping.
Yup. Jeff has got it. "You can say this is full frame" or "this is the complete original." Though I am still not sure what a 100% crop is :)
OK, thanks for the lesson! "Full frame." Got it.
I agree full-frame is the ideal term. 100% crop would be as if you are viewing an image at 100% magnification in PS, and cropped to show just that area of the image (hope that makes sense). Overall very nice, and I agree with Artie's comments. You could also sharpen more for web.
Definitely makes sense, Daniel. I got my terms mixed up. Thanks.
