DO YOU LIKE MY EQUINE PHOTOGRAPHY YALL:
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what cropping strategy did you use.
On the first picture?
yea .. or in general..
I'm not super into photography, but I've always seen the math guys around me apply a bunch of golden ratio crops, but the majority of the time, at least to me, the choice in Which application of which partitioning strategy still seems arbitrary.
From a photographer's perspective, cropping strategy depends on the desired / intended composition entirely, but for most use cases people rely on two heuristics:
1) rule of thirds: divide your frame in 3 columns and 3 rows, align interesting things on the intersection. For instance, horizon on 1st or 2nd row, in the middle is often considered boring. For portret photography (and horses, not sure whether I did it here), guideline is to have the eyes on an intersection
2) hyperfocal distance or "two thirds in" horizontal alignment for landscape photography. Typical, for landscape photography, the question always is where to focus. Many photographers use hyperfocal distance, which is argued to be the optimum sharpness for objects nearby and far away, but it is not "infinity".
In my case, I divide all interesting objects in a picture (like an algorithm in my head) and decide what I want to give attention. If that doesn't perfectly align with whatever rules the hipster photographers these days try to impose on you, f**k m. It's art, not math.
