The first post answering to this week’s Lens-Artists prompt that I saw was Brian’s from bushboy’s blog. I misunderstood the prompt when I saw Brian’s first photo and thought we are seeing “crops” (as in things that are grown) and I wondered about Australia’s agricultural ventures (he was showing a skew fence).

That aside, I think I know now what Ritva is asking. It’s a great prompt!

This sculpture is part of a fairly large gravesite. It’s fairly ostentatious, if not to say pompous. But the crop singles out the sculpture, the slightly skew angle takes some of the grandiosity away.

With this little guy it is the other way ’round. It’s a typical shutter holder on the outside of houses, there must be literally thousands lookalikes around. The crop concentrates on the ornament (and the rust).

I like this view because it looks like a jumble of roofs, putting the little gold ridge turret almost in the centre. Quite unbelievable that there are whole streets running between the houses.

This crop was born more out of necessity – the necessity not to show identifyable faces. Sometimes a blur can’t be avoided, more often than not I discard a picture rather than showing it with a blurred face. But cropping can be just as useful, and add an interesting effect to the photo.

The photo on the left ist not a perfect, no even a good photo. But I like the shot, a garden path bordered by creeping phlox. The more conventional shot, the close up has a different emphasis.

But those two shots illustrate something else that I find is an advantage of digital photography. Way back when I took analog photos I had think about the final crop when taking a photo. Since I did not have a dark room, i.e. my photos were developed without my input and that’s how they were. It often forget that these days. I go really close when taking the pic and later struggle with the end result while I could have taken a less tight shot and crop later at the pc. Unless I have played around with the focus and if I don’t cut off too much I get the tight shot I want, exactly how I want it.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Unusual Crop

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