Friday Fry Up

As is the tradition here in sleepy Bingara town, Friday afternoon and evening is devoted to a BBQ. As we all know, every BBQ needs picture proof that it happened and this Friday was no exception.

With building beams being shattered over water tanks stands and fine food being made to follow up I took a minute to get a happy snap or two of the BBQ offerings.

Mmmm BBQ

As you can see here, this cooker was electric. Our food is usually cooked on a wood fire BBQ... but we ran out of floor boards to burn as fuel.

An Exercise in Framing

So... today in class I was explaining the beauty of a magic tool. The Crop tool. This tool is found everywhere there are cameras or photos. From 2MP cameras of the 90s to iPhones and $5000 cameras of today, there is a huge probability that you can crop an image.

I took the image below as an example to show to my eager young minds. The point was to take a picture of something quick and simple, that could be improved upon by doing something simple. 

Original Image

Enter our friend the crop tool. In all of 10 seconds in front of the class, I simply cropped away part of the image to move its position away from the dead centre of frame. This also had the added benefit of cutting out the horrible highlight at the top of the image.

Re-Framed

While this is not the most stunning image that you will see on the Internet, after 10 seconds of re-framing and 30 more seconds spent on a split tone, the final result is an improvement. The point of this post, and that lesson, is to make cropping your friend. If you get it right in camera its a wonderful thing, if not, crop.