@kevinraposo
Hey Billie - learned about your channel and content through Tim Bates (DOP for OJHL), who shared this video during our annual accreditation meeting. Just dropping in to say great work - and keep it up. Really enjoyed this.
@NikCan66
Great video and helpful advice
@joeclaymore
I use the level all the time when cropping, but a tip, you can get to easily by holding down the control key (or ctrl on a pc) when you have the crop window activated. Works in Lightroom as well and is really handy. Loved seeing that I'm not the only one that is obsessive about a flat horizon! Good Stuff!
@emmittcarden
Great video! Same goes with video. People are always afraid to crop because they are afraid of losing quality when really the image/video could be 10x more impactful if cropped. The message should be more important than the quality of the image!
@frankgonzalez4214
Yo, this was great! extremely helpful....shared with my wanna-be photographer friends! keep these videos coming, bro!
@jakecannon7862
Awesome video! Great insight, I've always been scared of cropping in too much because I thought it would reduce the quality.
@3-piece129
I find that i use vertical lines just as much to level out a pic. Especially when there's bleachers that are leading away. I'll find a pole or something that i know would be vertical and line it uo with the guidelines in the cropping tool. I've noticed that horizon is not always level. Sometimes the fields are crowned or curved in the middle to allow for draining or the bleachers are going away from you, so the horizontal line is not as clear. Therefore, i use the vertical lines to guide me just as you used for the speakerat Bank of America. Hope this made sense.
@dofp3896
This was a great review and it's making me want to revisit my photos.
@morolakeoyin
Hey man keep up the work ,can you make a video for a budget setup for beginner sports photographers
@jabridge8945
Great vid
@Looooch1117
Great video! I often struggle when cropping because I'm so reluctant to cut anything out of the frame. Your crop of the Chavis picture is a perfect example - I'd never have the vision to go in so tight and lose the top of the hat like that. Do you have any tips to overcome this?
@marcbarry7937
Great video! Any thoughts on cropping more congested sports - think basketball or football - where there are almost always other players in close proximity to the subject? Sort of the equivalent of 4 or 5 umpire legs in the foreground.
@dwanelindsey6249
Love the videos! Thoughts on using verticals more than horizontal lines when straightening an image? I was once told, horizontal lines could have what appears to be a slope to them even though they are “level”. Where vertical lines (unless they aren’t plum vertically) would always be vertical.
@xxcmag
Question: What sort of file size are you cropping? In your opinion, what size file is "too small?" Especially when considering printing (Yes, printing, not web. Ha!)
@jareddarling6932
Awesome video! Just one question, on the photo of the team celebrating the walk-off win if you couldn't crop part of the bat out of the picture without cutting off a leg or the top of their head, would you just photoshop it out with the clone tool? Keep up the great content!
@jerometerry26
Billie Great Videos!!!! Just two questions. I noticed that you cropped to a specific aspect ratio. Is there an advantage to cropping in this manner.? Do you ever crop un locked? Thanks much
@tbradbury23
Big crop energy
@sbinvllc2252
I had a publisher of one magazine tell me not to crop any of my images. If that's what they want them I can do it for them, but it seems that I'll have fewer images considered if I dont clean up the images some. What are the industry standards?
@ScottRadfordChisholm
G'day Billie. Thanks for the videos mate, been watching for a while, but backtracking over some of your older ones. I use a similar system, but have not been backing up to PhotoShelter, which I do use. So will start doing that now. I shoot a lot of sport here in Aus, with our NRL rugby league being a main one. Couple of questions. I like to rename all my files using PM on ingest. Would this make it easier for you to find images if you are looking for them down track? Files in both your 'Edits' & 'Full' folder would then be the same, rather than one lot having the new name and the other having the generic DSC... etc ????? Secondly, I noticed you are dropping that folder into your PhotoShelter acct under the 'listed on website'. So all of these images ae visible to everyone and are you selling them, or are you 'locking' those images up in like a 'view only' mode? I generally save all my pix under the 'unlisted on website' tab. Maybe I'm missing something here or not using it to my advantage. Your thoughts? or anyone else give advice on this? Thanks and cheers mate from Australia.
@billieweiss7681