I have selected three images from my collection of photographs which could all benefit from some cropping. In doing so I have had to consider what I am trying to achieve by cropping an image. One of the main reasons is to focus the attention on a particular area or object in the frame.
My first image is of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth taken from a cross channel ferry in the early hours of the morning. The original frame had a lot of extra sea and sky. The subject of this image is the tower and the buildings leading into it. I think this is better reflected after cropping.Another good reason to crop is to get rid of unwanted intrusions. In this case the picture of our model Zoe is being spoilt by the intrusion of the person in the stripy top. We could of course try and Photoshop this out nowdays but cropping this to an almost square shape has given us a different feel to the image.
It was of course necessary to decide how much to crop. Here we have roughly divided the frame diagonally in half.
The final image is of a mediaeval story teller. The interest in this picture is the characters face. Some of the surrounding information is very distracting and awkward. By cropping in closer we lose the distractions and make it clear to the viewer they should be looking
