Yes, I like the horizontal crop better although I might have come in ever tighter - something like this (hope you don't mind me fiddling around with the image - I'll only leave it here for a day or two):
http://www.members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/gridtree.jpg I think this gives the tree a bit more prominence but it's still obvious what the foreground structure is. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I thought Brian had a point, so I tried a horizontal crop on the > Oak. As you > can see I was trying to crop out the big poles on the left. > > But I suppose I could clone them out. And I still want to clone > the top of > the telephone pole in the middle right out. I might keep it color, > but I > thought the B&W was effective. > > I've done nothing to this yet, really. Like I haven't bumped up > saturation > and sharpness, etc. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/oak2.htm > > Just curious if any of you prefer the second crop, before I bother > to work > on it more. > > TIA, Marnie aka Doe :-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email address with REAL anti-spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

