Crop for Impact
I crop the vast majority of my outdoor sports images. Most of the time, the action doesn’t fill the frame because where I’m able to shoot from is pretty far from the action. The action can get lost in the background as well. While I prefer to get in close with a telephoto lens and crop as little as possible, it’s a good option.
All the image-editing software available today can crop images. I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for 90 percent of my editing, and it offers some great cropping options. Another benefit of cropping in Lightroom is that the original file is not changed. The crop is only applied to the image when it is exported, and then the crop is only applied to the exported file, not the original. You can always go back ...
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