the.com/cropping
the ex leaves the frame, the story stays intact.
means trimming an image's edges to change what's shown, what's emphasized, or who's conveniently erased.
from from old english 'crop,' the top of a plant, later the yield you cut and gather — photography borrowed the harvesting idea, cutting away what you don't need to keep.
tinder eraex-cropping became its own dating-app genre
composition rulethirds grid exists mostly to guide crops
lossy secretcropped pixels are gone, not hidden