16. Frame Cropping.

Frame cropping is removing unwanted details or areas in your photograph by using the picture area's frame as a means to include or reject certain objects, or their parts. When done properly, cropping can eliminate unwanted elements responsible for the destruction of an otherwise harmonious and strong composition of your picture. You can see how I cropped out the unwanted details in this photograph of a pillar, thus including only the ones that I felt would straighten the composition of this otherwise would be boring and less harmonious setting. Using Kodachrome 64 film, Minolta x-700 camera with 70-210 telephoto zoom lens and a Bogen tripod, I photographed this pillar in the West Baden Springs by having the following settings: 1/30 shutter speed at f.11.

Frame cropping, sometimes, allows to breath life into the otherwise stationary object. I used Kodachrome 64 film, Minolta x-700 camera with 70-210 telephoto zoom lens and a Bogen tripod as my choice of equipment to make this photo possible. The exposure settings were 1/60 ar f.8.

Excessively done, cropping can alter the objects in their appearance, and sometimes, make familiar objects resemble some other ones.

Often, cropping at the level of your subject's limbs, could make them look ridiculous and awkward. Cropping could easily make a difference in the way your subject is perceived too.