Know Your Subject When You Crop Your Photo - In Post
The humble crop tool is and will continue to be a fundamental tool for photographers. Most images can be improved with a crop, sometimes small, sometimes large. For landscape photographers, cropping can help reduce and eliminate distracting elements at the borders of our images. However, in a chaotic landscape, trying to crop your way to tidy border may be a fool’s errand.
When I crop my landscape images, I keep two things in mind:
1. Know the subject. The crop needs to enforce and emphasize the subject. Never forget the reason you took the photo. Something caught your eye and compelled you to capture it.
2. Check the borders. Scan the edges of your frame and look for opportunities to crop away distractions. A small adjustment on a crop can simplify your frame and remove distractions that pull your viewer’s eye away from your subject.
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