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Harvest time, but the crops have failed.

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As I said in the previous post, it’s always interesting to see how a client uses your images. You go to a far away place, you sweat, you toil, you shoot, if you’re lucky a good image is given to you by Lady Luck, you look after it, care for it, edit it, caption it, archive it, and sometimes you sell it.

And then the client sends you the pdf of the page layout (they held their word, they did send it, many thanks). BUT….. They’ve cropped it. Now there’s cropping, and there’s chopping cropping. Those Magnum boys had the right idea when they wrote on their prints ‘No Cropping Allowed’.

My photograph from Carteret’s Atoll, Papua New Guinea:

Carteret's Atoll, Papua New Guinea

My image as emailed to me this week, and as cropped by a Norwegian client for their annual report:

norway-copy

See if you can spot the differences. Answers on a postcard please.

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