Ted: Sample 1

All I did to this photo is crop it. It is still cool to me what a difference it can make. This is the kind of thing I do all the time. As I get better I need to do less cropping, because I learn to compose the shot as I take them. Not only is it a great tool to improve composition but you can also learn what look you like by trying different crops. This is an example of a picture I took by panning with the car. Trying to maintain the same speed as the car so it was nice and sharp but the background blurred. This is the best out of many attempts but I didn’t get the car were I wanted it in the frame nor was I able to zoom as far in as I wanted. The great part of having the extra resolution of modern cameras is we can throw away a lot of pixels and still have great 5x7 or bigger. For the web all you need is about 72 pixels per inch.