I’m pretty new to darktable, and weirdly find cropping to be one of my hangups. I’m curious how y’all would edit this.
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Welcome here!
And cropping is a very intuitive action… as is interpreting a picture. There are infinite ways to do it. Sometimes very surprising when somebody takes a very different approach to it.
Did some playing around, with ‘a bit’ of cropping too 
Bit extreme interpretation maybe…
Hope you like it nevertheless…! I found it a very nice picture with this beautiful creature.
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I have a cropping preset that I use as I usually just crop in to whatever removes distractions and or focusses on the subject. What I did was set a fairly large offset to each edge. I did this because I often find what I deem to be the perfect crop when I am panning around and zooming in and out.
Using this preset the manual boundaries will appear when I am zoomed in on that crop and location and I just drag them to the edges of the screen/preview to complete the crop.
I think I proposed a sort of crop to zoom feature several years ago but it didn’t get any traction so maybe this is just a weirdo thing that I like to do…
Otherwise like others I just crop as I see fit from looking at the full preview…
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Sometimes it helps to rotate the picture. But I have to admit, this is a hard one and I’m not fully satisfied with my result.
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Welcome to pixls.us, @my_dad . As @Jetze said, just crop to your liking. There’s no reason to get hung up on it. If you decide you don’t like what you did, just go back and re-do it.
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Thats what I usually do, but more often than not I’m never quite happy with how it turns out. Hopefully more practice will help.
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The amazing leafhopper 
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Because it has the colors of the classic amazing spiderman’s costume 
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Well spotted!
I like close-ups, but here I think keeping a distance helps highlight the scale of the subject, so I kept most of those two big leaves in.
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Lots of contrast equaliser to bring up some detail and to darken the shadowed part a bit more. I don’t think it blends well with the highlights on the left now, however.
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What an amazing creature.
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I like your version!
Have no hearts left - spent all of them. I’ll have to be more ‘famous’ to acquire more hearts to spent… LOL
So type a message instead…
I didn’t realise that happens. It was one amazing creature. I have nothing like that here in Tasmania.
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Just couldn’t get photographically inspired for this one. Thought I would try to turn it into a tapestry, but not that good of result, either. lol
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Welcome @my_dad. Thanks for sharing.
Are you you? Or, are you the dad? 
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