What about wide-angle photography? The same technique applies regardless of the lenses used. Cropping is after all related to the third essential question in addition to composition and framing methods. As mentioned in the first page, if you are using single focal length lenses, cropping prior to clicking the shutter is done by changing your camera angle or getting closer to the subject to block out unwanted elements. For zoom lenses, it is a matter of using the zooming feature of the lens to accomplish this. Zooming to leave out unwanted elements with wide-angle photography is easier to accomplish if you are using a zoom lens having super wide-to-wide or wide-to-medium telephoto as it allows you to zoom in to the desired focal length for your cropping. With a single focal length wide-angle, you have to move in closer to the subject or in the case of where the subjects are located on higher ground and beyond reach, you may have to do the cropping later at the printing or scanning stage. Otherwise, switch to a longer focal length lens. Wide-angle shooting (35mm) Telephoto shooting (70mm)     An angle most likely to be shot by beginners What an experienced enthusiast will shoot Most beginner and hobbyist shooters are prone to include distracting elements in their photographs mainly because they are too keen to shoot whatever beautiful images they see without thinking about the best possible camera angle and composition. In most cases, the distracting elements don't matter to them anyway but overall, they know that something isn't quite right with their images but don't know exactly what it is that is wrong. In the two final images below, the style does look like those of the urban apartment block in the previous page. The reason for this pair of photos is slightly different in the sense that the emphasis is now on the design of the rooftop rather than the overall block. If you shoot the scene like the one depicted in the first photo, it will not create an impact for the intended rooftop. By leaving out all the unwanted elements in the picture and placing the emphasis alone on the rooftop, you get a better overall impact for the scene - anyone can still tell that the subject matter is a rooftop despite the cropped area. Overall view Cropped: Is it much better? Text and photos by Philip Chong. Copyright 2001 by Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 .