Everyone wants to believe their own eyes, but what you don’t see can often turn the point of view drastically. Photo editing might be the most common way to change a picture’s narrative, but simple cropping is a low-tech alternative that can be just as effective.
This technique works because our minds always strive to understand what’s happening around us and behind the scenes. When we only see a partial image, we instinctively try and guess what might be outside of the frame. Think that these hilarious pictures are dirty? Blame your own mind, not us!
Nice To Chill By The Pool
This Picture Of Sutro Tower In San Francisco Makes It Look Like The Top Of A Floating Ship
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When He Asks For Nudes But You Ain’t About That Life
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How The Media Can Manipulate Our Viewpoint
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Who Needs Fake Boobs?
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Cropping Changes Everything
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Cropping Changes Everything
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There’s Really Nothing Quite So Sweet As Tiny Little Baby Feet
The Truth Of A Lovely Holiday Picture
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Just Taking A Photo In Front Of A Nice Building. Oh, Wait
This Is How I Travel
When You See It
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Facebook Profile Picture Vs. Reality
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Sending Weirdly Cropped Photos To My Brother
My Baby Caught Me Sleeping
When You See It
So Happy With My New Hair
captaingrumpy 9 years agoI would have to clean up the room first before any photos. Be too embarrassing.
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Cropping Changes Everything
Cropping Can Really Change The Context Of A Picture
Even Shadows Can Be Misleading
Little Brother Fail
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Pictures Look Very Different When You Have A Dirty Mind
Expectations Vs. Reality
Bae Caught Me Sleepin’
JannProvencher 9 years agoI find it kinda cool the number of people that can take selfies with their feet!
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Cropping Can Change Everything
EvanB 9 years agoThat could also be the camera’s depth of field playing with the size of the subjects. Where’s the context for the edited photo? While I don’t know the photo’s history, something this serious should come with background sources, not just a photo of edited photos trying to show how doctoring a photo changes the perception (see the flaw?). This also raises questions like how much can the photographer edit (every Photograph, especially in the digital photography, is edited either by the camera’s firmware or the application the photographer imports it to, without the average photographer aware of it). Here’s an excellent series on doctored photos in journalism, from changing contrast, to Photoshopping subjects in and out of the photos: http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org I don’t think a photo like this, especially when lacking context, should be part of the more lighthearted submissions.