Project: Cropping and extending
Other formats
The course materials also discuss how, although the camera's viewfinder sets the format of the image, you can always change its shape when editing. A warning, though, is that the fact that it is possible to crop (or to extend) an image is not "an excuse for not being decisive at the time of shooting (p.64). The course materials iincluded examples of panoramic views, and in the images below I experimented with cropping to achieve long, horizontal formats.
The Ouse
This is a photo of the river Ouse in Buckingham, where I wanted to capture the feeling of the water flowingModel: Canon EOS 600D
ISO Speed Rating 100
Exposure Time 1/8 sec
Shutter Speed 1/8 sec
F-stop f/36
Aperture Values f/36
Focal Length 55.00 mm
I then cropped the image to achieve a horizontal format which I think makes the river look wilder.
ISO Speed Rating 100
Exposure Time 1/8 sec
Shutter Speed 1/8 sec
F-stop f/36
Aperture Values f/36
Focal Length 55.00 mm
I then cropped the image to achieve a horizontal format which I think makes the river look wilder.
Beach
I took this photo of some rocks on the beach near Erquy in northern Brittany because I loved the evening light. Although I quite like the original, I wondered if cropping it into a long, horizontal format would emphasize the instrumentality of the rock. I was reluctant to get rid of the sea and the beach when cropping it, as I didn't want to lose the context, so cropped it to leave about half of the image. The whole point of trying to crop it, though, was to focus on the colour and the texture of the rock, so I did another crop, this time losing the sea and most of the beach, and I think that looks quite interesting.