Discovering Art: The Making of an Artist Part 85

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Cropping Your Subject & Pianello Roses

To get interesting ideas for compositions, use a viewfinder to select a part of the scene in front of you. There are two ways of looking at your scene.

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Distant cropping, in which you fit your complete subject within the frame.

When you are cropping a figure, there is a special rule called “crop and float.” If you crop the top part of your subject, float the bottom half and vice versa.

Close cropping, in which you bring the viewer close to your subject so that the frame of the viewer cuts right across the shapes of important objects in your picture.