The Art of Cropping
Cropping is probably the most potent arsenal in a photo editors bag of tricks. A lot of people think that cropping is just the most basic of photo editing procedures and is not as important as the other, more advanced skills of retouching and color correction. But ask any photographer and they’ll tell you that effective cropping can bring wonders to any photograph regardless of it was shot correctly or not.
The secret in cropping is that you can control how the subject is framed in the picture. For example, if the subject – a person – is situated right in the middle of the frame, it looks very boring. But if there is an interesting element in one of the sides, you can crop the picture so that the subject is on one side with the other interesting element on the other side, creating a contrast in framing that will make the photo more interesting.