CROPPING AND EXTENDING

Fig 1



Fig 1:cropped



Fig 2



Fig 2:cropped



Fig 3



Fig 3: Cropped

Cropping is a convenient way to edit pictures. You cut out segments that are,nt needed. It is also a way of zooming into a subject taken from a far distance though this comes with the resultant loss in image quality and sharpness depending on the lens quality.If all lenses were infinitely sharp and films were grainless or if there were an infinite number of pixels on camera sensors, we could easily get by with one wide angle lens and just crop to the image we really want. Unfortunately we do not have that luxury.(Bruce Barnhaum; The art of Photography, 2010). The image in Fig 1 was taken along a countryside road. I loved how  the road sliced through the dense vegetation.  By cropping it in Fig 2 I was able to cut off the sky and zoom closer to the cyclist seen at a far distance.
In Fig 2 I have cut the foreground and got a rather narrow view of the background. Fig 3 is an angular birds eye shot of kids in a swimming pool. By cropping this picture, I have narrowed down the view to only four kids inside the water. Someone seeing the cropped picture only would have no idea about othersin the pool but not shown in the picture.

LESSONS LEARNT:
1. Cropping a picture in digital format gets rid of unwanted areas of a picture.
2. Cropping enables the subject to appear closer in a picture but sometimes with a loss in image sharpness.
3. Cropping also alters the visual perspective of an image.
4. It is generally a convenient editing tool.