Cropping Photos
| Here are three photos of a rusty old boat winch on Brighton beach.
Having decided to photograph it, I have to decide what I want to say.
Basically I want to say 'here's an intersting old bit of metal and
it's rusty'. In the top photo I have filled the frame with winch edge
to edge but does it really show the decay? We cannot reallysee the
rust in sufficient detail. |
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| In the second photo we can see much more decay and really see the
texture, which I think is the thing which attracted me to the object
in the first place. When we look with our eyes we tend to see details
like this and our brain filters out what is on the edge of our vision.
When composing we must be aware of the edges so we can tidy them up. |
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| Too close? Well that's up to you though it does have a certain impact.
There are no hard and fast rules, only suggestions. A walk around
the subject to look at it from different angles will always pay dividends.
Use the zoom to compose the tightest possible crop that still shows
everything you want. If you don't have a zoom lens then just get a
little closer. |
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