I usually hate it when people crop photographs to 9:16. It actually works here.
I’m just curious: what have you got against 9:16? My own dislikes on cropping are only when people crop too close to the subject, losing context, or too far away, capturing irrelevant background.
Here, I could well imagine free cropping this image to about this ratio: a lot of pole seems right somehow.
It’s usually accidental, stemming from people not understanding their phone camera settings.
It tends to be hard to compose for tall, skinny aspect ratios, with your dislikes being the usual result. Something like a pole helps a lot.
Ah, thanks - I only ever crop post-shot, but then I’m normally taking bird photos, so composition is often secondary to getting any shot at all before they fly off, and to waiting for the right pose if they are not too restless.
I was at a cafe on Saturday and a Little Raven flew in and settled on a tree branch over a table, and then caused some consternation when it started bombing the table with shits. Made my day, anyway.
