Marnie, I've read a couple cropping suggestions for this image. With all due respect, I can't see cropping any from the top or right. You couldn't remove much from the top without threatening the upper right cornice of the far right building and I feel that removing even a portion of the right edge will throw the image out of balance to the right. A small amount might be removed from the bottom, but even that isn't needed. A little too much and I'm afraid the image will appear top heavy.
Jack --- On Sun, 10/11/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 8:31 PM > Hmmm, long story, I'll try to > shorten it. > > The two buildings on the end right are closed and abandoned > and have been > for some time. The store on the left end (with a bar) is > still open. It is > a lot newer that than the others (relatively speaking). > > This is a very, very small town (basically five > buildings) that is verging > on being a ghost town. The Emporium & Bar and the > Post Office (not shown) > struggle to keep going. It is in Northern Northern > California. > > I stopped by at the end of my Oregon/Washington trip, > in the valley where > my father grew up, and again took some photos. I have > shown a few before on > list. > > The middle building is my great grandfather's store. > He and my other great > grandfather both came to CA for the Gold Rush. > Neither made any money from > finding gold, but one ended up having a very > successful cattle ranch, and > this one ended up opening the first chain stores in > Northern California > (general stores). > > I, oops, accidentally, took a whole digital "roll" > overexposed. I thought > I had it set on AV and the dial had been pushed to > manual. (That won't > happen again, now I will check every time.) > > Using Lightroom and suggestions from a new Lightroom book I > got, I was > actually able to recover a couple. > > The rest had interesting effects. I sort of like this > one. > > Certainly good enough for the "cover" of a PDF I am > doing on my family > history (for family members). > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm > > Tell me if you agree. > > (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under > the tree, but think > that might not be an improvement. I've also thought > about adding > vignetting, ditto, might not improve it.) > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > --------------------------------------------- > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of > thinking we used when we > created them. Albert Einstein > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
