Forum: Photography


Subject: Cropping discipline

ryno opened this issue on Mar 17, 2005 ยท 16 posts


TomDart posted Thu, 17 March 2005 at 8:45 PM

I have taken some images which "to me" are decent enough to frame..mind you, not in a gallery but for me. I am cropping less now using better composition in the first place but still...there is a part of an image when the crop frame is run over it or image is zoomed that really needs to be seen "alone" in itself. So, when I crop I like to go near the "rule of thirds" but am not hampered by that or by shape. Rectangles are either nice or simply appear out of proportion, in images and art and architecture.(spelling?) Some eyes just cling, cling to the symmeterical and that is not me in many regards. So, I have a pile of prints of "non standard size image area" without frames! These will someday be framed, matted properly first of course. But to have it done is very costly. So..here are the prints and not on the wall. Whew,..Tom.