1 x landscape crop

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1 x portrait crop

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1 x panoramic crop

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1 x square crop

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1 x circle crop:

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1 x multi – circle/porthole crop

1 x polygon crop

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1. Both could be described as landscape pictures. What kinds of landscapes do they describe? These two pictures describe a type of landscape that is called seascapes.
2. What similarities do you notice about these two pictures? In these two pictures, they both show the sea and types of rocks.
3. What differences do you notice? I noticed that the first picture is more sea based, it shows close ups and selections of sea, sand and rocks. The second picture shows a seashore with some type of peer and with large waves and rocks. The second picture also is in black and white whereas the first picture is in colour.
4. What words/phrases best describes each of these landscapes? The words that best describe the first picture is complex and unique and for the second picture I would describe it as textured and rustic
5. In which of these landscapes would you prefer to live? I think that I would prefer to live in the second landscape as I think that I have a clearer image what it actually is and It just looks better in general.

To make my photographs appear more appealing, I have decided to edit some in a way that makes a specific part of the image stand out. To make the colour splash photos, I first used the quick selection tool to cut out what I wanted to stay in colour, I then selected that area and layered via copy this copied the area I had cut out. I then changed the original image to black and white, making sure my copy of the umbrella I cut out , was the top layer.

This is the final image. I think it turned out really well, the cut out of the umbrella looks very smooth and I think that it was a good idea to use the umbrella as the colour popping out as it is really bright and stands out well against the black and white.

Other edits:

To “crop” an image is to remove or adjust the outside edges of an image (typically a photo) to improve framing or composition, draw a viewer’s eye to the subject, or change the size or aspect ratio. In other words, photo cropping is the act of improving an image by removing unnecessary parts. Here is me trying to crop my images to improve them in different ways.

Landscape and portrait crop:

I think the landscape format crop works better for this image as the walls around the people act as a border, forcing the eyes towards the subject more and cropping the image landscape will not waste this feature. However, the pebbles on the ground that can be seen on the portrait image, leads the eyes towards the subjects, as they get smaller and smaller. I edited this photo in black and white too keep with match the style of Bresson.

Panoramic crop:

Here I did wide crops of 2 images, on vertically and one horizontally. I think the first image works well for a wide, horizontal crop because there is a lot of empty or unimportant detail that does not add to the overall image so I cropped it out. It also makes the main subject take up more of the image. The second image works well with a vertical crop because it keeps only one subject in the photo, and creates an interesting photo with all the windows behind taking up the background of the image.

square crop:

With a rectangular crop, the eye has a tendency to move across the image until it finds its focal point; with a square crop the eye moves around the image. This shift in the dynamic, from fluid to static, presents you with a great setting for capturing the serene. Striking still lives with plain backgrounds and posed portraits work a treat in a square frame.

Centred subjects have a tendency to look flat and dull in a rectangular frame, but that circular eye motion that we make with square-cropped images means that they don’t lose their impact. This is clearly being show in this image of the car, as its headlights take the centre stage and stand out. All the people before now being cropped out further adds to the impact this car has. (I have edited this image in black and white to further stand out the little Renault).

circle crop:

Here I cropped this image in a mostly circular format in photoshop. I did this more for the contrast as most circle cropped images are happy and exciting but this one is the complete opposite, with this young kids parents having a fag.

Our school travelled to St Malo for street photography. St Malo is a walled city on the English channel coast and is a popular tourist centre and has a lot of historical value. We where trying to capture the ‘decisive moment’, coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson. This is where there was little planning involved (the furthest I planned was waiting at specific areas where I think an interesting moment could happen). I was looking for photos that looks classically ‘French’ as we where in France after all. I also did a few photos of just the French architecture, with their colourful French shutters and bright doors. Here are a few of my favourite photos with a small amount of colour editing:

Biuldings:

These photos would go very well together in a topology so I have edited them with similar settings so I can do this later on. I tried to capture the unique buildings in St.malo, that maybe had so moss growing, old paint, graffiti, and more to give the images more life.

People:

Here I mostly cropped to keep to the rule of thirds, making the subject more prominent, However with some cases I thought it looked better to forget about the rule of thirds, like when the subject is moving quickly off the scene. I have a few strong images that I will edit further and try a ‘Bresson style’ B&W photo.

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.

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.