how would you crop this shot?

[hagz]

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.

http://www.photoradar.com/photos/136...-end-of-an-era

this is the original image

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


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

[hagz]

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.

[silversnapper1]

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

[hagz]

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

[ianpinion]

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

[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)

[ianpinion]

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.

[Cathus]

agree with the above, looks fine to me

[hagz]

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.

[KeithT]

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