Hi, > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3173937&size=lg
> We always encourage comments, and thank you in advance should you > choose to do so. One more comment - not a criticism, because I like the picture, but something I try to look out for when I take photos. The big 'For Lease' sign. It's probably the whitest thing in the frame, and so it tends to pull the eye towards it. But, and this is what I try to avoid, it is a lot of in-yer-face text that is not part of the real content of the photograph. The problem with text is, you read it and it distracts from everything else. It assumes an importance that it doesn't deserve, unless it's a billboard condemning your neighbour, or a contrast between rosy-cheeked white middle-class people, above a breadline of flood victims. http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/diciembre99/photo2.html So I do my best to choose a vantage point that avoids intrusive text because I know that if the text gets in the frame, people will read it rather than look at the real subject. -- Cheers, Bob
