Cropping my images

Example of the sizing of my original images:





I felt the main focus of these original images was a mixture between the background and the subject but I really wanted the focus to be primarily the subject with the background just being a bonus to add vulnerability feeling to the overall narrative.

I decided to crop my images which is not something I have often done with final pieces as I always frame the image how I want it before I take the image so I have always felt that cropping ruins the framing.

I cropped my images to a ratio of  3:2.3 so that it was not quite a square but almost. I felt square was too compact and didn't like the framing.

I cropped my best images to the ration 3:2.3 and this is what they looked like:




















I like the framing a lot more and made sure to have equal amounts of background at each side of the subject so that the subject was the central focus.

 I am pleased with this crop and I shall use it with my final images.

























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