Lens Artists Photo Challenge #385 – Unusual Crop

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This week Ritva is challenging us to be bold and creative with our cropping. She is encouraging us to deliberately defy traditional framing conventions. At first I didn’t think I could come up with anything but her many great examples inspired me to give it a try.

I almost always crop my photos to begin the editing process. For this post I tried some new to me cropping techniques. The original photo of our dog checking out the butterfly was not close enough to see the details of the butterfly. Normally I would crop the photo into a rectangle but I tried making a square image instead. It’s out of my comfort zone but I hope you like it.

Curious Labrador Retriever finds a butterfly

This photo of a crocodile was originally shot in landscape mode. I like the way it turned out after I cropped it to portrait mode.

I wanted to have lots of negative space in the next image so I cropped out the palm tree that was in the original.

Pacific Ocean in Oahu

I snapped this final photo of the Sidney Lanier Bridge out the car window as we were leaving Jekyll Island, Georgia. At first I wanted to trash it but I decided the negative space of the cloudy sky added to the image.

Sidney Lanier Bridge, Georgia

Thank you to everyone who responded to my challenge last week of What Astonishes You! Your responses were amazing and showed us many astonishing images.

I hope you will join us this week for Ritva’s Lens-Artists #385: Unusual Crop. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and link back to Ritva’s post.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, February 21 at noon eastern time when Patti will be hosting the challenge.

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

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16 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #385 – Unusual Crop”

    1. Thanks Ritva! You really challenged me on this one! I had forgotten about our dog with the butterfly but I stumbled on it when I was looking for something else. I’m glad you like it. Thanks for taking me out of my comfort zone.

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  3. Abfab! Your pup with his wee friend is adorable and your crop is perfect! Changing the perspective of the croc makes it a very interesting image and your eye is drawn to the length of that jaw (yikes!) and to his watchful eye. Great crop choice! But, um… Exactly how close were you to him? One of my new favourite photography subjects is bridges and I really admire how you cropped that image. Great shots, great crops and thank you for sharing those gems with us! pp

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    1. Thank you so much for your kind words! We were in a boat and spied the crocodile lying in the grass beside the river. I took the photo with zoom lens and cropped it to just show his jaw. He watched us as we went by in the boat. I really like photographing bridges, too. I’m glad you liked this one.

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