Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Barney Quinn showed the cropped version: Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater Twilight > thank you for your advice and thank you both for taking the time to > look at my picture and to give me some very sensible advice about it. I > agree with your comments. Having two centers of interest in a photograph > is asking for trouble. It doesn't work. > > Here is the original....... > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater+twilight.jpg.html > > Here is the edited version as per Dr. Ted and Jim...... > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blsckwater_Twilight_3.jpg.html > > What do you think? which do your prefer? Hi Barney, Obviously "my vote" is for the cropped version eliminating the glaring distracting sunlight allowing the viewer to concentrate on what the photo is... "birds with colored sky and water." If anything as we look at the cropped scene on screen, I might even crop about a 1/4 inch off the bottom! OK now that's my eye at the moment. If it were my shot I would do it just to see how it looked in what I think might be a better balanced feel in print! ??? Sometimes we kind of eyeball a scene and make a direct and fixed crop decision and decide "that's it!" DONE! Sometimes it's better to make a few cropped prints and put them side by each for the final decision. Sometimes you find how wrong you were by making one print as the final edit. You can look at this one almost until yer blue in the face without putting cropped versions side by side for the true quality of what's there. One thing for sure the full blown sun is definitely out! No matter how you crop it and keeping the sun brilliance in blows the shot to the waste basket! FILE 13! Quite frankly it's nothing but a blinding light as in the same fashion if you were standing there looking at the scene! cheers, Dr. ted :-)