Can I hijack? I have taken about 5 pictures in my entire life but can I?
Why not?
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dag T wrote:
Thomas Moraitis, Sunset with Drying octopusses
Sunsets are popular.... It is not a bad one, but in this case I miss
something in the other end of the line. The composition is too heavily
concentrated on the left. Also, I would have preferred to have the
horizon clear below the octopuses. One radical suggestion: crop until
only the line the sun, perhaps the horizon and a few octopuses remain.
When I saw it I thought "fill-in flash on the post" (hopefully deflected to keep it soft). What would you make of this suggestion? I don't want the detail of the octopus, but feel I am missing something from the lamp.
In my view, the picture is not well balanced, more details in the post will not help, on the contrary I think a fill in flash would draw more attention away from the octopuses.
Being a fellow ex-pat com-pat, this picture says a few things to me :-)
Joseph Tainter, Notre Dame From Upstream I like the light in the lower part of the building, but don�t like the way the towers are cut. I�d prefer either more or less.
I always have this problem when I take buildings. Assuming you go for less, won't you lose the top of the round roof at the front? Would you go even lower?
Dag Thrane, Stone Hey, that�s me, OK, revenge is yours :-)
As I have no picture I perhaps shouldn't, but here goes: I would like perhaps something more at the bottom to frame the foot. That's what I hate most about my upright pictures. I am also pondering on the possible merits of a bit more DOF to expose the hand fully (is it motion that makes it blurred?). I get the morbid feeling here that perhaps the stone is *behind* the hand (and perhaps the child) and going towards it!
I agree that it may be too tightly cropped at the bottom. Regarding the hand it is motion blurred, so more DOF would not help.
I have seen the weird illusion that the stone might as well be behind him, actually it a kind of thing that I enjoy. It adds something, I think...
Thanks for the comments!
Ann Sanfedele, Yellow chairs Yellow? Nice colours ;-) The fuzzy circle at the right bothers me, besides that I like these skinny chairs.
Would you align the floor with the frame of the picture? Would a straight shot from the front be boring?
It didn�t bother me. In fact, I think I liked the slight disorder (as well as the colours ;-)
The tulip was my favourite.
Right now I agree, but there were several good pictures there, so I may change my mind tomorrow :-)
Kostas (trying to learn-thanks for the commentary)
DagT (trying to learn by commenting :-)
