{"id":2714,"date":"2023-01-29T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T02:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:39:48","slug":"if-you-didnt-take-a-picture-did-it-really-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2023\/01\/29\/if-you-didnt-take-a-picture-did-it-really-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"If you didn’t take a picture, did it really happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Parking Garage Sunsets” by Corinnag is licensed under <\/a>CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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“Who is taking a picture of who?” by\u00a0Corinnag is licensed under\u00a0<\/a>CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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What Changed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To create a new image, I cropped out the figure on the left of the screen, the figure holding the phone, the parking garage, and a significant portion of the sky. In doing so, I put the focus on a phone and the photo displayed on that phone. I centered the new subject on the bottom left side of the photo to allow room for the hand holding the phone and the beautiful sunset in the background. I wanted to leave those because I felt they made the image interesting while still allowing me to draw to user’s focus to something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Change of Focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The photo above went from a photo of a girl taking a picture of her friends to a photo of a phone with girls taking a picture. Slightly confusing, I know. The subject of the original photo is the brown-haired girl. Your eye as a viewer is drawn to her and what she is doing. It is almost as if you filter what is happening in through her perspective. You see a girl who is enjoying a sunset with three of her friends. She is clearly smiling as she turns the camera unexpectedly to the girls behind her instead of the beautiful sky in front of her. It captures a goofy, lively moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cropped photo tells a story from the perspective of a cellphone. The phone tells of two girls quickly trying to capture the sky before it fades away. With multiple subjects cropped out, it no longer feels like a group hangout and you no longer see visible smiles. The photo as a whole seems far more focused on artistically capturing a photo within a photo than capturing a moment between friends (as it did previously). The story is more about what is happening than what emotions are present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cropping Concepts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Crops the photo to tell a (different) story \ud83e\udc2e (From a goofy moment to an artistic moment)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Crops to Change or Emphasize a Focal Point \ud83e\udc2e (From the brown-haired girl to the subjects on the phone)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Leaves out unnecessary details (simplifies the background) \ud83e\udc2e (Removes the girls in the foreground and the parking garage)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Before: After: What Changed To create a new image, I cropped out the figure on the left of the screen, the figure holding the phone, the parking garage, and a significant portion of the sky. In doing so, I put...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023","category-student","tag-compositions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}