Shel, I'll try to explain how I see it. The roadblocks or whatever they are in the foreground are not at all interesting to me, and make this a view on an industrial area, whereas there is a nice landscape with cloudy sky around these weird pseudo-windmills or pseudo-rockets. By cropping within landscape-format, this to me results in a better picture although the horizon gets a bit too low. Marnie catched this idea of windmills look-alike well and just concentrated on this. But her pic shows a minimum of landscape in the distance. Cropping your picture to get rid of these distracting white roadblocks makes it more dramatic and surely would make the position of these silos within the landscape entirely different to Marnie's picture, though it is lacking some of the area in the distance. If you forgive me, I would say that if you are aiming only for some context as you remark, then all you get is a not so interesting documentary picture showing the area of Napa, California.
Henk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > Sent: 21 March, 2007 5:48 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: PESO - Windmills of the Mind > > > I don't care for it at all. Much prefer the foreground and > background to provide some context.. I can't help thinking > that you're being sarcastic since the result of your crop > looks very much like Marnie's photo. I guess you really like > her photo. > > Now, since you've directly compared Marnie's pic and mine, > and taken the time to crop mine, perhaps you can take a > moment to explain why you prefer one to the other. > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Henk Terhell > > > > I liked Marnie's pic better, but I cropped your picture a > bit to get > > rid of the foreground. How about this? > > http://www.dewindvanvoorne.nl/fotoalbum/silos5452rev.jpg > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
