Creative Cropping

Its time for iHeartFaces and this week's theme is "Creative Cropping." I've discovered cropping a very handy tool, especially when taking photos of my kids. There are plenty of times you can get a great expression or funny situation on camera but you can't always plan the background. That's where cropping can come in to really making your subject stand out and make those unsightly backgrounds less prominent. Case in point, after the great "Meet Your Camera" tutorial last week I was playing around with the Manual mode as D ate his edamame. He actually refused to come in the house until I got him the box of edamame ("mah-may") out of the freezer. I loved his face in this shot, but didn't notice til after I took it that there was a chewed up piece of cantaloupe in the box -yuck! I was also happy to crop out other distracting elements like the bright blue highchair, white paper on the table and the bright window frame that distracted from the main focus of the photo.


Make sure you head right on over to iHeartFaces today to check out the other creative crops!