how would you crop this shot?
 

recently one of the Royal Artillery Batteries was disbanded (or put into suspended animation) and i decided to take a couple of shots. one poignant shot was the battery's flag being hoisted one last time before being taken down for possibly ever.

[url]http://www.photoradar.com/photos/136900/hagz/42-bty-disbandment-end-of-an-era[/url]

this is the original image

[url]http://www.photoradar.com/photos/136900/hagz/un-cropped[/url]


cani ask you how you would crop this shot or what you would have done differently

bearing in mind though that on such occasions there is no way you could get on the square with teh soldiers etc and i was about 130 m away.

I wouldn't change it at all, it looks perfectly balanced to me.

thank you i just thought it looked abit stretched out with gaps between the main elements.

Looks absolutely fine to me too, but where did you think it needed cropping from hagz?

i don't really know it just looked a bit square and loose to me it is hard to say but i just thought it looked a little well not quite right. i did trim the edges in a little when i converted it maybe i should put the original up also to compare.

i don't think i explained what i meant very well the first image is how i cropped it and the second is the original image as it was fromt he camera (obviously converted to jpeg)

I think the one you've trimmed is fine. I don't see that you could realistically do anything further to it without spoiling it.

agree with the above, looks fine to me

thanks guys was a bit of a sad day to be fair and the final image will no doubt end up as a print somewhere in the Regiment.

There is no room for a further crop. It is fine as it is, as others above have said.