Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your rule of thirdsing is good, though I'm wary of the square crop, at least in the first one, losing the left half of the tree doesn't seem to be helping. It's the better of the two, in the second image there's not enough definition between your subjects and your background -- it's a combination of the deep depth of field and the fact that their heads are one-in-front of the other (so you've got one head growing out of the other). I see a couple of solutions to this, (apart from opening the f-stop to get a shallower dof (they look more or less camouflaged right now) one is to wait until their heads seperate and the decisive moment happens. the other is to shout over to them "Can you put your head up against his shoulder so I can see both your faces? I'm taking a photo!" (like they're doing in the first shot) I don't have a problem with either of those. Though I think the question really is "what story does this image want to tell" -- and for me it's "here we are, looking off into the rest of our lives together" and I don't know that the tree or the vegetation adds to the story -- you might just want to run up 40 steps and frame them alone with the sea in the background. Though it might be "here we are, together, but tiny little dots in the world." in which case you want as much "else" in there as you can get without cluttering, so the tree's necessary. I'd lose the square crop though, it creates what I see as an odd empty pocket in the frame. my two cents only -- take it for what it's worth -- hope this helps, kyle On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:15 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=3596> > > c&c always welcome and appreciated > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information