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.

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL FRAMES

For this exercise , i went out to see what images i can make of vertical and horizontal shots. What i did was to take vertical and horizontal shot of each subject.




Fig 1: Shopping Complex

 

Fig 2: Shopping complex

For this exercise , i went out to see what images i can make of vertical and horizontal shots. What i did was to take vertical and horizontal shot of each subject.

Fig 3: Palm tree

Fig 4:Palm tree

Fig 5: Road in Benin city

Fig 6: Road



Fig 7: Residential complex




Fig 8:Residential complex, vertical



Fig 9; Uncompleted building

Fig 10:Uncompleted building



Fig 11:Line of palm trees



Fig 12: Line of palm trees



Fig 13



Fig 14





Fig 15: Painting on the wall

Fig 16: Painting on the wall







Fig 17: Fish: Vertical



Fig 18:Fish, Horizontal



Fig 19: Satellite dish



Fig 20: Satellite dish

 There tends to be some differences in perspectives in vertical and horizontal frrames. The horizontal frame absorps more of an area. I tend to think that vertical shots are very good for portrait pictures. In some instances though with my lens zoomed in and very close to the subject, you need to look very well to observe the difference in the vertical and horizontal shots as in the image of the fish in Figs 17 and 18.

Horizontal frames seem to flow more naturally with the eye. In the Photographers Eye, it says our natural view of the world is binocular, so a horizontal picture format seems entirely normal. The horizontal frame influences the composition of an image, but not in an insistent outstanding way. It conforms to the horizon, and so to most overall landscapes and general views. (Michael Freeman, 2007).

For naturally vertical subjects, the elongation of a 2:3 frame is an advantage and the human figure, standing is the most commonly found vertical subject. (Michael Freeman , 2007). The image of the woman in dark dress in Fig 14 illustrates vertical effect on portrait.