Learning Task 04: Cropping an Image

In this learning task, I was asked to take six photos which follow the theme of 'your favourite colour'. Each of the photos were required to be applicable to one of the six different rules of composition, which will be edited in Photoshop.

Below are the original photos as well as the edited versions:
                                                                                        

Original

This photo was edited to meet the composition requirements. The composition technique I used for this was to 'crop and emphasize a section of the image'. I decided to use this photo because in comparison to my other photos, there aren't any specific interesting focal points to capture.

Original

 














The reason that I cropped this photo in this manner was because of having taken the photo on such an angle. This gave me the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the power of the 'crop perspective' tool.

Original

The composition technique applied to this photo is 'changing orientation of image from horizontal aspect to vertical aspect image'. I decided on this technique because I felt that changing the orientation of a photo with a large focal subject would display an interesting contrast in tightness.

Original

 

In this photo, the composition technique I used was 'change composition and move the subject out of dead centre', which is why I positioned the image to the far left, while enlarging the image through cropping.

Original

I decided to use this photo to represent 'composition to allow for large type space' because the original photo had a large amount of area uncovered between the bicycle and the edge of the photo. As you can see, the photo was cropped down to extend the empty area. 

This is my photo I used for the 'brownie points' task. I have included a logo in the empty space as was required. I've used my initials as the design logo.

Original

The composition technique used in this photo was the 'Rule of Thirds'. There is a very minor difference between the original and the cropped image, as the original sits well-aligned to the invisible intersecting lines. This is the main reason why I chose this photo for the technique, as I only had to slightly tweak the positioning of the grid lines.