Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My reaction: your initial frame is spot on so don?t crop it at all. Why? There?s a sense of motion in this photo. The lone trike looks like a goal, removing it takes away an element of the image. The sky sets time of day and tells us something about why the light is the way it is. The reflections on the beach juxtapose with the sky, modulating and translating it. And, of course, the people at work give the image a definite purpose and a need for the motion I wrote about above. Personally, and in the best of all worlds, that little anchored boat about the lone trike could be removed. I?d have a hand at doing it in Photoshop to see if it makes for a better composition. It?s the one thing that takes my eye away from the flow of the image. I really like this one. Good work. Hope you had a great dinner and the heat wave is subsiding! Adam On May 16, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I need cropping advice on this. The horizon is right in the middle, > which is a no-no - maybe. Should I crop the sky or the beach? Crop out > the boat? Only the tricycle and reflection? > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/155680816 > > Last one tonight. We're going out to dinner.