As most of the regulars are aware I have a section on my website devoted to taking pictures.
I now have a section on cropping whereby you stand well back, take a high resolution shot and then crop to the section of the image you want.
As you can see from this thread I have a new camera, as it is a 6MP camera this method can be used really effectively.
Here is a link to the original image - be warned this is a 2.9MB file.
Here is the same image (shrunk - but you wouldn't do this)
In this case I am going to take a crop of the crew on the Squiggoth.
which would leave me with
see next post for final (actual) crop
