Thursday, September 11, 2008

Compositional Trick #5 Cropping


Cropping is a trick that photographers do all the time, even if they don't realize it. Every time a photographer chooses to cut something out of his/her frame, before they snap the photo, that is in essence cropping. We also have learned tools on Photoshop that allow us to crop an image after we have taken it. When cropping in Photoshop it is possible to improve our composition or change it completely.
I like the cropped version of this picture alot more than the original. It was supposed to be a leading lines picture, but it had way too many leading lines, and an extra emphasis. Now it has one leading line that is cool because it splits off at the emphasis and goes left and right.

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