I like the first crop the best - not quite so distant but still in keeping with your original idea. All in all, a pretty good idea. I'm sure I would not have thought of something like that.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, October 10, 2005, 12:07:41 AM, you wrote: Eac> Okay, Bob wants more meaningful discussion. :-) So please indulge me. Eac> I got curious and I am testing a thesis. Eac> Practically no one liked Personal Space but me. I think the wastebasket and Eac> the bottom should be cropped, but I liked it. Eac> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/man1.htm Eac> Godfrey said (at the NorCal PDML meet) regarding "street photography" that Eac> one has to get in close (5-12) feet otherwise the photograph lacks intimacy. Eac> From what Juan and Shel have said (and the lenses they recommended, 24-55mm) they Eac> concur. Eac> I found when doing street photography, well, I can't. I have great difficulty Eac> penetrating someone else's personal space bubble. I can shoot people I know, Eac> sure, and I did all over the place. Shot PDMLers at lunch even if they didn't Eac> want me to. Eac> So I liked personal space, because I left the guy his space. And I didn't Eac> think the composition was that bad. Not great, but not that bad. Eac> I suspect, however, that it does not meet people's expectations regarding Eac> "street photography" and closeness (i.e. people found on the street). Eac> Therefore I have made three crops, each successively closer. (I thought it Eac> might be a bike besides the guy, but turns out it's a fence in the background. Eac> Bit distracting. Oh, well.) Eac> Of course it could just be a lousy photo. Eac> But I'd be real curious if anyone likes the crops better. And which crop do Eac> you like? Eac> If people do, it would tend to support the above thesis. Although I was not Eac> using 24-55mm; I was using a zoom. And I probably shot at 70-90mm or so. And I Eac> was about 15 feet away. Eac> I used the first technique Shel's listed to convert to B&W. Eac> http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/color2bw.html Eac> And the technique Boris showed me to sharpen after resizing to convert a RAW Eac> into a JPEG (I see artifacts so I am still not doing it right). Eac> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/high-pass-sharpening.shtml Eac> FIRST CROP: Eac> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/space1.htm Eac> The forward arrows take you to the next crops.The back arrow on the first one Eac> takes you to the original (however, the forward arrow on the original does Eac> not return to the first crop, since the crops are in a separate loop. But your Eac> browser back arrow will do that). Eac> Anyone have a stronger emotional reaction to any of the crops? Like any of Eac> them better? Eac> TIA, Marnie aka Doe :-)
