Cropping

A crucial part of this assignment will be how I crop the photographs before I take them, this will help to show the important information which can be seen in the individuals faces.
I went through different photographers who have done similar style photographs to check the aesthetics of them and to see how they were cropped to help me decide. I looked at Richard Avedons and as you can see from the below photographs, he chooses to crop at many different parts of peoples bodies. By this I mean that he doesn't have a uniform crop to his photographs, some show the full length of the person and others are cropped so that you are only looking at the shoulders and head of the person. I think that he chooses where to crop the photograph depending on what useful information the person has which will portray his feelings and ideas to the audience.

I then took a look back at the previous set of photographs that I did to see if I could see any correlation between how I cropped the images. 

Looking at the photographs on a contact sheet helped me to self-reflect how I cropped each photograph when I was thinking about it during the shoots. It is interesting for me to see how I cropped each image and to see the similarities and pattens which are apparent. 

I have come to the general conclusion that I tended to crop each person just below the waist, a little lower that the hands. After realising this, I can see why I chose this particular crop and it helps me to think back to the shoot when I was setting up the shot in my head. It  is very interesting to see my though proces through the photographs. From this, I have decided to use this cropping in this book assignment as much as possible however, if there is some information lower than the waist which I think is interesting, I will change the cropping.