Cee’s Compose Yourself #15: Cropping

Cee’s current Compose Yourself assignment is Cropping. Four photos are shown in before and after cropping state.

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Cropping is my friend, sometimes being the only edit I do to a photo. Often I am unsure where and what to crop. Most times I like discovering what unnoticed details emerge on the cropped photo.

My niece’s beautiful hands, the cropped version showing the detail of her nail polish.

©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins

When a photo is cropped a lot more about the scene becomes apparent. I took this photo because I liked the contrast of the 2 ladies dressed traditionally eating an ice-cream cone. When I took the photo I thought that they were young women.  The cropped version shows that they are older than I thought.

©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins

A different photograph emerges with cropping.

©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins

A gently weathered home in the Drakensberg Mountains. I prefer the composition of the original photo.

©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins
©2016 Regina Martins

Click here for Cee’s essay on cropping, and to see more entries in this week’s challenge.

Cheers,

R.

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