Photo Crop Exercise

1. Locate 10 poorly composed photographs, and/or photographs that could be cropped uniquely so that attention is drawn to a different portion of the original image.

2. Using the cropping tool in Photoshop, crop each of your 10 photos to either a) improve the overall composition, or to b) change the tone and overall message of the image.

3. Upload both original image and crop images for each of your 10 photographs onto your visual journal blog. Post should be titled "Photo Crop Exercise-Aug 30". Then answer the following questions (for each of your 10 cropped images).

Reflection Questions
a)How has your chosen cropping improved the original image?
b) What unnecessary components in the original have been eliminated through cropping?
c) How has the focal point in each photo changes or been improved?


Photo Crop Exercise post due (via Visual Journal blog) by the start of next class, Tuesday, Sept 4, 12:30pm.




REFERENCE EXAMPLE:

Original Image #1

Cropped Image #1

Cropping has deemphasized the artist in the photograph, shifting focus solely to the illustration work on the phone booth. Besides the female artist looking up at her work, the distracting background and a coffee cup has been eliminated--which strengthens the image.,  What unnecessary components in the original have been eliminated through cropping? If the purpose was to examine the illustration, this crop does the job effectively.