Hi Frank, I've been looking at this one off and on since you posted it. My first reaction was that it's a strong image because of the cropping. But in time, over several viewings, it became weaker and weaker. Cropping out a portion of Claire's face as you did diminishes the potential this photo has ... it reminds me of all the snaps our parents took with their box cameras in which part of Aunt Gertie's head was missing.
Apart from the missing portion of Claire's head, there's a good potential for a nice, solid photo here. The person in the background picking fruit, the apple being presented, and the expression on Claire's face, all combine nicely to tell a little story of a nice moment in the orchard. However, the presentation as it is doesn't make it for me. Now, jumping back to an unfinished conversation we've had - but first this comment: the experiment was a worthy one. However, had you photographed this scene in a more conventional manner, you'd have been able to crop and trim the photo to get the same result while at the same time allowing room (literally and figuratively) to explore other options as well. kind regards from foggy San Francisco where the freshest apples are now from Chile, Shel frank theriault wrote: > > I don't know why I did the eye like that, Boris. > > I suppose one reason is that I have a gazillion photos of Claire's face - > the whole thing. > > When I took that one, I thought I'd try something different, and when I saw > the photo, I thought it worked. It was different, and I thought, > interesting. Can't really say why, just is, I thought.
