On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice. But you'd best crop out the floating branches in the first. Yes, they > do balance the reeds and the bird, but they have no visual support, and are > therefor a distraction from an otherwise good picture. > > Printed all mine dark when I was younger too. Why waste silver if you're > paying for it! :-) Now that you mention it, I recall reading or hearing somewhere that floating branches (in air, not water) are to be avoided, and guess I see your point. OTOH, it's my picture, and I can do whatever I want to it! ;-) Seriously, I do like them for balance, but I'll have to try cropping them out to have a look-see; I ~do~ try to be open-minded once in a while. ;-) Thanks to everyone who looked and commented. 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 to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

