On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Paul, the cut-off face of the walking guy on the left ruins the shot for me. > The girl on the right seems to look at him, the girl in the middle is looking > straight ahead and the guy whose face you did not include in the frame seems > to look the other way. I think it is important that all three faces are in. > Otherwise - you and your gear (seeing DA* 60-250 :-) ) did a good job. > > As for rules of sixths - I often find recently that I want to compose my > frames so that the object of main interest is towards the edges and small... > Don't know why really, but this is how it is :-). > > Hope you don't mind honest brutality of my comment, as I mean no offense, > obviously. >
No problem. Nothing brutal about your comment, and I tend to agree. Wanted to see what others think. I have some other frames without the three walkers, but I was intrigued by this one for some reason. Paul > Boris > > > On 12/19/2010 5:36 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> An experiment in framing. The rule of sixths perhaps. >> >> This guy, who probably lives in Detroit and commutes to a job in the >> suburbs, was sitting on a door stoop in downtown Birmingham, Michigan >> waiting patiently for one of the infrequent buses to take him home to >> the city. Reverse commuting and lousy public transportation are just >> two signs of a broken city. (A third is when the mayor goes to >> jail.) >> >> K-5, DA* 60-250, f5.6, 1/250th, ISO 400, 200 mm. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12112196&size=lg > > > -- > 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.
