Friday 19 November 2010

Photography 1: The Art of Photography

Project: Cropping and Extending
Exercise: Cropping

For this exercise I took 3 photographs from a previous exercise and experimented with different ways of cropping the images.

What have I learned from this exercise ?

By experimenting with different cropping options for a photograph it is sometimes possible to find a more interesting image or one that has more impact within the photograph.

The original photographs along with their final crops are shown below:

4794
4794-B
I cropped the original photograph of this person waiting for a tram in Will Brandt Platz in Frankfurt so as to isolate him from the background.  The subject is typical of the bankers of Frankfurt, checking his email while he waits.

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4766-A
I cropped this image of the animated statue in front of the Messe in Frankfurt so as to concentrate on its silhouette.  With less of the background detail the statue is more clearly defined.

4801
4801-A
I cropped this image so as to more closely fit the frame to the subject.  The subject seems to fit the squarer frame shape better.

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