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    Default Greylag Geese, Inner Mongolia, China

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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

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    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.
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    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?

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    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?

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    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.

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    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 :)
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    OK, thanks for the lesson! "Full frame." Got it.

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    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.

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    Definitely makes sense, Daniel. I got my terms mixed up. Thanks.

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