On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:31 -0700, "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I confess that out of laziness I hadn't uploaded the final version to > > flickr. When I went back to print it, I tweaked it slightly, pretty much > > exactly as you said: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4802263252/ > > Then, after posting the last, looked at the photo again and went for a > much tighter crop: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4802285668/ > > The photo in the upper right is O Sensei, the founder of aikido, and the > calligraphy, written by O sensei translates to "True Victory is Self > Victory", which are critical elements to "the place". I think that I > prefer the less tightly cropped version, which lends a bit more > spareness, and the feeling of traditional Japanese austerity. > > Comments?
I prefer the less tightly cropped version but it probably needs to be seen as a largish print. On a monitor the figure is still quite small and undefined unless you view the large version, but then you have to scroll and can't appreciate the whole image. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- 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.
