Cropping Workshop

During this workshop we learned about photo cropping and we did some exercises. On the first two tasks we had to design the following images:

1. Close up of a detail

2. Wide angle horizontal
3. Narrow angle vertical
4. Depersonalise a photo with people in it
5. Crop to abstract
6. Crop to define
7. Make look distant
8. Crop to enhance the emotional impact
9. Narrow vertical
10. Bold exciting
11. Discreet

He had to use the the creative thinking strategy tool 'Plus/Minus/Interesting'. PMI is a lateral and creative thinking strategy used in de Bono's CoRT thinking program.

TASK I

On this task we had to use images from magazines and newspapers and we created our own cropping pictures.

PLUS: It is very successful for the theme - enhance the emotional impact

MINUS: 

INTERESTING: Both faces have the same emotional impact

PLUS: The balance of black & white on the picture

MINUS:

INTERESTING: The main theme of the picture changes and I am trying to focus on another element

PLUS: The only color of the picture is on the lips

MINUS:

INTERESTING: It looks like a lip gloss advertisement

PLUS: There are no faces here but there is a depersonalization

MINUS: 

INTERESTING: The fact that the man placed on the left of the picture and takes exactly the half horizontal angle

PLUS: Everyone can understand the theme of this photo, it is obvious

MINUS:

INTERESTING: This picture is very strong

PLUS: The movement of the cropping image

MINUS:

INTERESTING: We can understand what he is doing without looking the first picture

PLUS: On this picture we can look the distant

MINUS: The image is not very clear

INTERESTING: The depth is very interesting

PLUS: The emotion of this face is very strong

MINUS:

INTERESTING: The main theme changes at all

PLUS: My thought for this picture was to discreet it. I think it is very successful

MINUS: - 

INTERESTING: The depth - Each face is behind the other

PLUS: -

MINUS: I chose this crop for the emotional impact of his face but the focus is not there. I had to crop a bit more

INTERESTING: The movement of his hand and the emotion of his face

PLUS: The balance between black & white

MINUS: The main theme of this picture changes

INTERESTING: The hard contrasts

TASK II

On this task we had to use the images from blackboard and we created our own cropping pictures.

PLUS: The main theme changes

MINUS: 

INTERESTING: It seems like the people want to jump 

PLUS: The detail of her emotional face

MINUS: The other faces lost

INTERESTING:

PLUS:

MINUS:

INTERESTING: The only I kept on this photo are the children

PLUS: The emotion of his face become stronger

MINUS:

INTERESTING: 

PLUS:

MINUS:

INTERESTING: It is like a portrait

PLUS: There are no faces here but there is a depersonalization

MINUS:

INTERESTING: The balances of this photo work very well

PLUS: The man looks doing something else

MINUS: The cropping is not very well as I crop a part of his head and it doesn't seem very realistic

INTERESTING: 

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INTERESTING:

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TASK III