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    Took this image about five weeks ago when visiting north central Wyoming. I am uncertain of the crop as I didn't know wether to take the foreground rocks out of the image or not. I would like your opinion please.

    Nikon D3
    28-70mm @ 35mm
    35mm (in 35mm film)
    1/640 sec, f/10
    Mode: Av
    Metering: Multi-segment
    ISO: 200
    White balance: Auto
    Flash: Off
    File size: 119MB
    Image size: 4256 x 2832
    Color space: AdobeRGB
    Saturation: Normal
    Sharpness: Normal
    Contrast: Normal
    Color profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

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    Hi Wheeler,
    I did the old "browser crop".........just scrolling till I could crop it to where I like it...........right now I am leaning to getting rid of them......to where the path/road starts.......and then take some off the top too..........to 1/4 inch above the far right cloud......I may just be into pano crops now....but it seems that any variety of crops would work.........including leaving the sky totally in. It is called "Big Sky Country " for a reason.

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    Agree with Roman's comments on removing the rocks in the foreground...but that sky is really nice and I'd be tempted to leave it as is. Do you have another with all of the rocks in view? I think them being cut in half is one of the reasons I'd remove them.

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    Dean-
    No but I will crop the rocks out and leave the clouds the way they are and resubmit them in the morning. Thanks for your thoughts.

    Mac

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    Mac,

    I would go with Roman's crop suggest - losing the rocks strengthens the image. As they are protruding into the image, they are a distracting. They would have made a nice FG compositional element however if include in whole.

    Nice work placing the road as it works well as a leading line into the image. The transition from the green valley to the snow-capped mountains to the big sky clouds layers the image nicely and creates great depth.

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    It seems the clouds is the main interest here so I would have included my sky and less FG which would have lost the rocks. Now you could have used a wider FL in the vertcal format and still included the FG rocks to anchor the image and still show a vast expanse of interesting clouds. I think that would have been my approach....

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    Thank you all for your thoughts. Here are the results of the croppings you all suggested. Let me know whst you think and which one you like the best. I think I like the pano Roman suggested. Thank you all again.
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    This is the sort of Pano

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