Cropping - Any Rules or Just Eyeball It?

Do you have a process you follow for cropping?
Or do you just play with it until it pleases you?

Here are three from the same large pano:

And another two from a different pano of the same viaduct:

Which would you keep of each batch?
Or would you crop entirely differently?

Thx,
Jon

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The last one in both cases.

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Casting a second vote for the last one :+1:

No hard and fast rules for me. I’ll usually end up trying several and comparing them to see which one feels right (well, the right-est, anyway). Generally though, I’ll keep the rule of thirds in mind.

Oh, and spotted this today over on Facebook and thought I’d chuck it in as loosely related :wink:

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Eyeball it. There are no “rules”. There are guidelines of what often looks best but they’re guides. And your eyes will tell you.

For me number 3 is the best. Im not a huge van of wide, narrow panos (personal preference). I also dont often like the curvature that appears in very wide FOV images visible on straight things like viaducts, roads etc.

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