On 5/28/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Genie gave you three wishes, and none of them came true :-(( You can > easily fix the tilt, sharpness can be somewhat improved, and, of course, > should you desire, it can be converted to B&W. All that may not be your > style or desire, but the tools are available to get your wishes. ;-)) > > I'm sure a lot of PDMLers will like this one Frank. > > Too facile for my taste. Composition, with the kid almost dead center in > the frame begs for a bit of a crop, which can be done while removing the > tilt. Would have liked to have seen more bus giving a greater sense of > place and situation, maybe a logo or graphic as a counterpoint or > enhancement to the kid, but y'gotta take what the Genie gives you.
Thanks for your comments, Shel. Well, as someone else said farther down, it turns out that the bus is going uphill, and the camera was actually level (look at the window frames on the building behind the bus) <vbg>. As far as the b&w conversion goes, I'm kind of liking the colour - it lets one know it's a school bus (I don't know how relevent that is to the photo, but I kind of like that info being available. I agree that I'd prefer the kid off-centre as well. I'm thinking cropping out the left side a bit might work. I may fiddle around with it later. As far as seeing more bus, well, I only had one shot; we were in two buses, waiting at a red light and as soon as I snapped, it turned green and off the other bus went). No chances for other framing options after that one shot, which was taken in haste (as one might be able to tell). Again, thanks for your thoughts. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
