Pick of the Crop

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Pick of the Crop
I am really glad Cee has extended these “Compose Yourself” challenges to only two per month, as I’ve had a problem completing them in one week.  The photos I’ve chosen all presented varied cropping choices, which I’ll discuss as I show them.

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Fast Tracks
Cropping it a bit centers our attention on a detail we might have otherwise overlooked–the child running past in the background.
A further crop brings us in a big closer to the action but doesn’t have much of an effect.
Moving the boy further to the right of the image creates more of an interest in what is ahead of him rather than arousing curiosity about what it is behind him that he might be running from.
Centering the attention on the woman and beach vendor creates more tension. Is she ordering or scolding? The man in the background seems to be listening in as well.
Cropping the photo even smaller reveals yet another story to be guessed at.

 

This close crop certainly reveals this little dog in more detail
than this less extreme crop,

 

 

JDB Photo
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Cropping closely and adding exposure reveals more of the transaction going on in the foreground.

Version 3

But bringing back the shadow in the foreground, helps to reveal more interesting action in the background.

Version 2

And although the focus isn’t great, I love this cropped shot of this active little jogger.

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/27/cees-compose-yourself-photo-challenge-week-15-cropping/

6 thoughts on “Pick of the Crop”

  3. barbwit's avatarbarbwit

    My favorite is the red shorts, brown legs and blue ice pack on the knee. The leg follows the line of pebbles at the top of the picture; that diagonal line that I see so often in great photos so it must be something sought after.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I like that part, too. Earlier i had seen her bring the ice bag out to him and wondered what he had done to his knee. Strange because my upstairs neighbor fell and hit her elbow and I’d sent an icebag up I had just bought when I was in the states–a miniature one with marini olives all over it..as though it was for a hangover. I thought it was funny and at the last minute tossed it in to bring to beach…So I thought it was a coincidence that we would both have such an unusual object at the beach.

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