On 9/18/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it sucks, but it is unbalanced - too much weight at the > left. I think it would still be unbalanced even without the cyclist.
Right. Well. Of course. I was looking at all those colours, the graffiti, the bright clothing, and although I cropped a bit off the left, I didn't want to lose all that stuff. However, you're absolutely right about the "weight" of the pic. So, I cropped a lot out. Then she looked lost, all dressed in black against the bright coloured clothes. So I converted it to black and white, which I think works in the crop (below). But then when I got to the office and looked at it on my work monitor, I could see there's absolutely no detail in her black dress (amazing how much detail I can see in my LCD monitor at home that just doesn't show on my CRT monitor at work). I think I could fiddle with the brightness/contrast a bit too. So, this is still a work in progress (they all seem to be with digital; that's one thing I liked with film - did I just use the past tense? - I shot, got prints, that was it!), but I think I'm getting somewhere: http://tinyurl.com/ys74tp http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/RvEOo10U2eI/AAAAAAAAAuM/spT8bBB9_jk/s1600-h/sept_19+001.jpg I'm just not sure where... ;-) Oh yeah, I decided to change the title: The Fitting Room. More streamlined and simple... Thanks for your input! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
