Cropping images can alter an photos meaning. By changing the focus you can create a new photo, which in many cases this could make a photo better.
By cropping this image to have the line of focus go from the dive platform to the water to the beach, then town and then the sky,
With this one I have brought the bottom of the photo to the the barrier. By doing this I have made uses of the sky, to make the towers and cranes stand out.
These two are from the same original photo. by cropping the image smaller and smaller the way the photo and the man in the photo is viewed changes and someone’s idea about the man changes. the first photo has more in the foreground which makes it seam more busier, whilst, the second one appears more lonely to me. the way that the man is solitary on his journey.
Cropping can also alter the way a photo is perceived. This photo below is already quit elegant and ethereal.
However, when the model is put in a circle crop the viewer and focus in on her and their mind can explore the possibilities of who she is and where she is from.