I find it quite good. Don't throw it away. You could keep the cup and clone out the bag. If it were mine, I'd crop out a lot of the upper frame and some of the right. But that's somewhat a matter of personal taste.
Paul
On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Well, John, just make the bag the main subject and most of your complaints
are resolved ;-))
Honestly, I go back and forth between liking the bag and cup where they are
and just tossing the pic into the trash. I think for me there's enough to
like that I won't trash it ... can't really do that anyway as I've got the
negative <LOL> I did bring down both the bag and the cup in PS. They were
REALLY intrusive in the original scene, but I knew that when I made the
photo. Maybe I can make the cup and the bag brown ....
Shel
[Original Message] From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:33:42AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote:Taken at Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley on Solano Avenue, shot thru the
window glass.
http://home.earthlink.net/~pdml-pics/peetswindow.html
Comments welcome, of course.
I find there are too many distracting elements in this shot. The large white bag keeps pulling my eye away from the main subject. Even the white patterned coffee cup jars somewhat, especially since both it, and the background of the shelves, emphasise the fact that this shot has a tilted viewpoint (and, as you probably remember, I like true horizontals/verticals).
