Improve Your Compositions With Crop Guide Overlays

[@mauricered2000]

This video is so underrated, that aspect ratio tip for the fib spiral was great 😊

[@deanroyer9954]

This is the best explanation I have heard about crop overlays.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks so much, Dean!

[@matzemoller.fotograf]

Ich nutze die Linien auch schon lang aber noch nie habe ich mir über die genaue Anwendung Gedanken gemacht. Danke für deine Tolle Erklärung. Liebe Grüße, Matze

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Bitte! Ich bin froh, Ihnen einen anderen Weg zu zeigen. Gut sein!

[@carlreid4161]

Superb explanation Brenda, and great visuals.......just going through some of your back catalogue.

[@sudhiracharekar]

Excellent explanation. May be you can include photos to elaborate further in subsequent videos. Looking forward to it.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Will do - others have asked the same. Thanks!

[@jasoncario7063]

Thank you for this very informative video. Very scientific but very well explained! I am glad I found your channel!!!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks for tuning in! :)

[@billp8944]

Thanks Brenda, appreciate your efforts

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks for watching!

[@neklamp2431]

I didn't know that the spiral didn't work by itself. Great info!

[@robertstancer4469]

WOW, littl'un, you know how to come back with a bang from your sojourn into photopills. Great to have you back but.....Rabatment, golden spirals? Coulda let yourself in gently huh? No not you littl'un. Still that's why we love you. Good to have you nearly back into 'real' photography. armatures huh. Ps; It's raining in Cambridge.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks! Fun to make some different tutorials :).

[@cwetfeet]

You bring a scientists perspective to many/most of your videos. When you do your podcast it would be very interesting to bring an a very right brained artist and have a discussion about how they treat things like aspect ratios and complimentary colors, leading lines, and other compositional topics. I'm not making any judgements here, I love listening to how different people use these things in their photography.

[@charlenenagel7962]

Great info Brenda! I love your teaching style - such clear and concise explanations. Thank you!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks, Charlene! I appreciate that.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Another great vid. I learned something new again. Buy the way I picked up Photo Pills after watching some of series on it. Thank You.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Awesome - that's great! More PhotoPills Friday videos coming soon.

[@fredkrieger278]

Well done and thank you. Best explanation of cropping I have seen and I have been using LR since the begining.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks so much, Fred! :)

[@alextaylor2799]

Incredible explanation of a topic I've long had the desire to learn more about. I especially appreciated the delineation of the golden spiral with a 1.6:1 aspect ratio compared to "normal" spirals with any other aspect ratio. Bravo!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks so much! I'm so glad that it was helpful. :)

[@nicknichols4249]

Thanks for refreshing my knowledge of the different composition guides. You handled this very contentious subject very well.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

I appreciate that, Nick. I was a little nervous about posting it, but thought the info would be helpful nonetheless.

[@garywaggoner1953]

Thank you! Once again you’ve presented a worthwhile subject in a clear, concise manner! I’ve used the “Golden Spiral” for the lions share of my crops not realizing the math or aspect ratio of it, much less how to set it correct as a ratio!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Happy to help clear that up! As I said in the video, spirals are still a great way to help arrange elements in a composition (even if they are not the golden spiral exactly).

[@emmanuellegrosjean4847]

I love your videos Brenda! Thanks for making these and sharing with us. I find your explanations very clear and so helpfull!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

You are so welcome! :)

[@dougstringer5358]

Thank you for the best video on photo cropping. Now a big fan!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Awesome! Thank you, Doug!

[@kurtmaloney8950]

Glad to see you back, its been a few weeks. Very helpful video, as always.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks, Kurt!

[@alnmp7541]

Interesting thanks for the explanation!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

My pleasure!

[@Moonrocket59]

Most excellent Brenda! I've found that since the new age of digital photography, it has created a lot of lazy photographers. Back when you paid 30 to $40 a roll for film to be processed, it forced you to slow down and really "look" thru that viewfinder and really see what and how you were shooting your subject. Nowadays, it seems we shoot frames and hope we get something decent without a consequence, just reformat the card and your ready again. I'll be the first to admit I'm guilty of that. Slow down and really scrutinize what your looking in that viewfinder. Great video and awesome explanations!

[@thomastuorto9929]

It is called spray & pray!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Totally agree! Definitely easier to "spray and pray" these days, but slowing down and taking your time with compositions is much more rewarding, in my opinion. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. :)

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

LOL - right!

[@johanhefer3512]

Great explanation!

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Thanks!

[@kelv52]

Thanks for these helpful tips, everyday is a school day they say, and I picked up some more knowledge thanks to you, you have already helped me to better understand photopils also, somewhat better than Raphe himself, (but dont say I told you( subed like and clicked the notification bell

[@jimlaw2522]

Nice explanation of the various applications. Perhaps a deeper dive using various images that would be enhanced by using the different rations and comparing them as part of other vids ?

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Sure - sounds like a good plan! I'll add it to the idea list :).

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Thank you. Good basic review for those of us who don’t use these very often. I hope you will also go back to Photo Pills. I find those extremely interesting particularly because they teach me things about the app that I would never have known were there.

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Very glad to hear that! And yes, more PhotoPills Friday videos will be coming soon :).

[@Bloggerky]

“This may be controversial” - leading into a passionate dissertation on proper crop ratios and the golden spiral.

[@emirhandr.3824]

Thank you for this great video. I would like to ask for some book recommendations about portrait composition. Can you please name some books that I should read?

[@soularproject]

With so many ways to locate the subject of a photo in the proper place, I am wondering if it would be helpful to have an anti crop tool that would show the photographer that there is absolutely no justification for his/her particular location for his/her subject. ( tongue placed firmly in cheek) I would like to see a video on your opinion of the various crop guides and which ones you feel are the most effective.

[@rahulchakrabarty9083]

Awesome

[@hanskehanske]

Very interesting.....can I to place this on the display of my camera, canon 6D? If not, how can I to solve this? perhaps a app or....?

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Some cameras have grids that can be displayed in the viewfinder or even on the LCD (you'll have to check your manual), but often this is limited to the rule of thirds. If you want to use them on your camera, the only way I can imagine doing that is printing a grid to the size of your LCD onto a transparency film and placing that over your LCD display.

[@josephstanski5180]

Hey Brenda - great discussion - you might want to see this photographer/artist: Tavis Leaf Glover on KZbin. His dynamic semetry grids and tutorials has changed my photography so much. Thank you for this tutorial - for me the learning curve is still going straight up. (professional landscape/travel photographer and watercolor painter) J

[@outdoorphotographyschool7366]

Will do - thanks, Joseph!

[@nandig8049]

cutie 🥰,