So continuing to look at the series of images from the market, he's the guy selling chicken, characterless man, he's often got a good small first, he was pretty busy today. Now looking at the images and looking at what I might be able to crop out of an image, there's something that you want to consider when you're counting because sometimes you can relatively easily crop an image to improve it there are near decided wasn't worth it. So looking again at what we've got, and certainly the top two with the people on the right hand side are quite distracting. So we'll go and to pick that one. Hit the D key to bring it into the develop mode, zoom out and then go up to see Crop tall, near the top of the window there underneath the histogram. Click on that.

And you can just click on slide to crop the image the top spices deeds by sphere, inside the line in the backgrounds quite distracting, so I will take her out as well. And then down the bottom, or does crop that up somewhat because it's team space. Stronger images pretty severely cropped, not how I prefer to do things. But just for that is a lesson on how to view your images. I think it's a valuable thing to know and to consider when you're going through your initial towers to think about how you might crop your images to improve them. So just looking at the ages looking at the composition, what you've got on the frame, the guy's head, there is quite distracting.

But as you see from this example here, I'll go into crop it again with crop it out in the in the lady in the background crop her crop, the part of that lady, and then bring it down a little bit from the top. And you're hand this far I really was lifted but really doesn't tell a story. So it's not worth cropping it because I've taken too much of the information about what he's doing and where it's located out of the image. So just reject those other ones that are near as quite nice is looking at because having a bit of a chat will select up along with the remainder of that series and go on again and have a lot to compare the action that is whether it's acceptable or not, control, click that one because I've decided I don't want to keep The rest of them start unselect cert and then I can just have the X key and reject all four of them.

Now the slow girl, crawling and Charlie, I didn't get here in focus she was moving toward, they were moving towards me. And that was too, too quick to be out of focus for me. So we'll miss those ones. So we'll just delete those two and carry on with the fish. Now, this is a very different set of images, there's no action, it's all about composition. It's all about patterns.

And most of all, when the image loads, you can see that most of us were at a focus because I've used a very shallow depth of field. So these are going to be rejected pretty quickly because they're out of focus, or that not out of focus but not in focus in the right place. They wouldn't To be focused on the eyes of the fish to make them worthwhile keeping. So that one's a bit better. That's still not good enough. That looks better.

So it's the next one's another series they're having a look there and how have cropped them. I like the ones with the Tris river further from the edge of the bottom of the frame. A capital a slightly different compositions there. Have a lot of sharp still loading. Okay, that's okay, that one tick thing because it's fairly similar. And go on to have a look at just these three horizontal ones together.

At this stage, I don't often view Horizontal and Vertical images together to compare them. I prefer to just compare images of the same orientation. So now I'm just having a look to see by pressing if it brings up the sidebar with the information so I can view what my settings were what aperture are shortly that because I can remember at some point I changed my aperture skating so that was a narrower aperture that will give me a greater depth of field and give me a little bit more on focus. I'm shooting these with my one eye five macro lens. Sir is not going to be a whole lot of depth of field evident. But let's just have a look to see where abouts these images are sharp.

So let's just Take a few of those out and then select the next batch and have a closer look at them. So just predicting some of them that are obviously not good. Having a look to see we're about slash app. We're about set point of focus as sorry as roundabout there, on the tails of the fish in the middle of the frame. That will lower down and layers just at the top of that. Again, the titles and the middle of the Frank, that's not great.

So we'll just reject those ones. And it's still a lot to choose from. So I'll go through those, but not bore you with the details. So this is the types of things that you can look for. considering whether you can crop your images to improve them or not, or of cropping them is going to mean that you're losing too much of the detail too much of the story. And then also particularly on images we have used a very wide aperture ceiling or shot them with the macro lens and common close.

Anyway, you've got a very shallow depth of field. I typically shoot a lot of images so I can heat my big so I can try and make sure that I've got at least one or two really good sharp focus, but looking carefully at those images at this stage. is important because it can be really quite discouraging later on if you think you've got a sharp image, but you haven't checked up carefully enough, and you discover that the one you've chosen isn't sharp, or isn't sharp and the best place and image that it could be, for example, on the fish's eyes as we're those closeout ones needed to be focused for me to consider using them.