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The Importance of Cropping
🕑 Added 2015-12-07 22:24:02 +0000 UTC Cropping can make a huge difference in your photography.You can easily turn a boring or crowded picture into a very interesting photo that draw attention to a particular subject.
In fact, most of my portrait photoshoots are conducted at very ugly places, but with strategic cropping, I made the focus on my subject.
Here’s an example of a hallway photo I took at the Los Angeles convention center. There was a lot of people walking around but this Stormtrooper family really stood out for me. I took the picture in a rush and only took horizontal (landscape) photos as they stopped for a minute. The other people were definitely very distractive, however, cropping solved the situation. Not only it is more subject focused, the convention space also looked more like a futuristic structure. With a few more minor adjustment, this picture has a totally different feel.
Comments
good point on the 2x3 ratio. so if I wanted to print something other than 2x3 ratio, i'd have to crop it to that size (5x7, 8x10, etc)
Hey Harvard, I usually do all my pictures at a 2:3 ratio, so I can print at 4x6, 8x12, 12x18, 20x30, etc.
Martin, my brother and I were discussing prints a few weeks ago and he brought up a point to me. I have been cropping without thought to standard print sizes. So if a picture was going to be printed it might have too much bordering when printed. Do you crop with a standard size in mind? (like 5x7, 8x10, etc)
