Exercise: cropping

The aim of this exercise was to find 3 photographs of different subjects that i had already taken, and find different ways in which to crop them.

 I played around with this picture a lot before i settled with my final crop. My favourite feature of this photograph is the clouds and so i tried various different ways in which to incorporate the clouds into my crop, but it just didn't look as good as the original, or too similar. I then thought about cropping to have the building in the background as the main focus within the picture, trying to think slightly outside of the box, but again it just didn't look good enough. I finally decided to fill the frame with the subject - the ruins.

 The next picture i decided to crop was of a landscape. I really like the cliff in this picture and the bare trees against the colour of the sky and so decided to create a picture with that.

The final photo i decided to crop was of a row of statues on a roof. I played around with the photograph a little first, i was unsure whether to crop just the larger figure or the figures in the background, who appear closer together. I finally decided to make a crop of the figure in the front of the photograph. I included some sky in the crop also as if to make it look like hes looking out into the distance, thinking maybe.
This is my favourite crop i have made so far, i like the use of the religious symbols and its simplicity. It's almost thought provoking. A statement.