Digital Photography Cropping

As promised, here is the brief tutorial to understand cropping.

The original photo was 3872 x 2592.  This 12.5% crop is 484 x 324, or 12.5% of the size of the original while retaining most of the original photo.

This is a 50% crop of the same image.  Since it is also 484 x 324 pixels in size, it means that I removed 75% of the original image to produce this one. (484/3872 = 1/8… but since it’s a 50% crop you double that value, meaning it’s 1/4th of the data from the first image… which also means that I removed 3/4th of the composition to make this one.)