Things I Have Learned from Photography #7
7. Leaving extra space on the margins at the time you take a photo is the safe play.
This is the picture with no crop or rotation. It appears that I left enough on the top margin, but I did not.
I wanted to rotate the picture because I wanted the background lines vertical. When I did that, a part of the man’s head is cut off, which is a highly undesirable outcome.
Rather than rotate the picture and cut off his head, I simply cropped.
As it turns out, I can easily fix this by expanding the canvas with a smart fill in Snapseed before I rotate. This possibly could have been better accomplished in PhotoShop, but really, it is easier to leave a little extra at the margin when the picture is being taken.
This is a screenshot of the expanded canvas. I have chosen the black expansion so it is more easily seen.
This is a screenshot of the expanded canvas with the Smart expansion that I actually used.
I could then rotate and crop.