James's designs

01. Close up of a detail
[+] drawing attention the gun in his hand
[-] taken out of context, the previous image was very interesting
[i] I think when you take the gun out of its' 

original context it becomes less interesting

02. Wide angle horizontal

03. Narrow angle vertical

04. Depersonalise a photo with people in it

[+] Makes a statement!
[-] Loss of identity
[i] I wonder how some people become so patriotic, I really consider myself a world-person, so when I see this picture it really hits me! If you take away the flags, images, ideas that he is part of, you can see the underlying emotions that anyone can experience towards so many things. Basically he is a patriot of his country in the same way  I'm a patriot of my Mac laptop :)

05. Crop to abstract

[+] Engaging!
[-] Cold and distant
[i] I wanted to take away the gang related instruments in this image, now it's not so sure if this is a gang member, maybe I should have made it a tad more abstract...?

06. Crop to define

[+] Emotional
[-] 
[i] I've drawn attention to his face that sums up the feeling of this picture, he looks really upset, which I think defines this picture!

07. Make look distant

[+] Scary
[-] 
[i] Sometimes we feel powerless, seeing these two people look out into the distance makes me think of the current global warming situation and how we are trying to do something about it

08. Crop to enhance the emotional impact

[+] Lonely
[-] 
[i] The close-up of the boy with the distant long mess leading into the background plus the aery fog/smog makes a very interesting image. I just simply accentuated what was already there

09. Narrow vertical

[+] Precise
[-] Basic
[i] It takes a lot of technical ability to do what he's doing, so simply cropping a small line out from the picture and making the image longer than the original draws attention to what he's doing.

10. Bold exciting

[+] 
[-] 
[i] She looks so amazed, you couldn't mistake he emotion for much else. Her face more than the others shows that feeling. I made her the focal point of this one and cut out shapes. It creates 5 separate images, if you look into them you get a similar feeling of excitement and amazement!

11. Discreet

[+] Dark!
[-] 
[i] You see a lot of youths walking the streets wearing hoods, to me it's all one big social problem thats been going this way for a long time. So when you see the picture of the child out there in africa, probably starving, war torn, injured and familyless....It makes you think!