I crop many of my bird photographs, especially flight shots, because the birds don't wait to be posed in the right part of the frame. However, I'm not usually looking for a different picture, just a better one.
This is a bamboo bridge over the Daying River in Yunan, China. It's like walking on a spring matress. The pole and flag are part of a frame at the entrance to the bridge. This is a full-frame image taken at the time.
I thought there was another picture here concentrating on the bridge itself, eliminating the rather untidy and detached pole and flag.
Although the bridge itself is highlighted, it isn't ideally placed in the frame, so the crop hasn't worked too well.
This is Scarborough Lighthouse from castle hill - an image used in the focal length exercise.
I thought a square crop would remove some of the foreground and distant detail, thereby enhancing the lighthouse and ship. The pier curves nicely up to the building, the ship adds some foreground interest and helps to set the scene.
I think the result is possibly better than the original.
Fordon Church - a tiny edifice in a forgotten hamlet on the Yorkshire Wolds.
I thought there was another interesting image here concentrating on the path, doorway and "spire", with a tall vertical crop, leading the eye up the path to the door and up to the spire.
I think the result works quite well.
In order to draw the crop lines on the images, I printed off the original and put them in a plastic sleeve, and drew on that, then scanned them. Freehand sketches I'm not good at!
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