For those of you who were at image study last night, there were two broad themes – sharpen/contrast and focus on what the subject of your image is. I mentioned that I crop “out” from the center instead of cropping in, and here’s a brief video showing that technique. i use Lightroom 3, but I assume this can be done in other software as well – possibly without “bringing down the lights”, though. The image I use is a great example of things that we were discussing – the boy is the subject, and most of the background is of dubious value at best, but there’s an awful lot of that background.
