Composition and layout

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Framing and cropping

Lesson 23 of 27 in Composition and layout.

Cropping Portraits and Model shots: How to crop and compose your images · Newcastle Photography College
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A crop is an argument about what the picture is of. The same photograph cropped two ways can be about a person or about a place, and nothing else in layout changes meaning as cheaply or as completely.

about the placeabout the person
One image cropped two ways, changing what it is about.
A picture editor at a light table frames a woman's face on a large print of a bridge using two L-shaped black cards.
A picture editor slides two L-shaped card corners over a print to test crops. Where the edges fall decides whether the photo is about the person or the place.
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    Which of these words means this? “Space around a subject inside the frame.”

    • Crop
    • Breathing room
    • Poster
    • Dynamic symmetry
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Where a cut through a figure lands. Joints are the worst places.”

    • Crop line
    • Asymmetrical balance
    • Edge assignment
    • Visual weight

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