Thanks, PJ and Larry. I appreciate your suggestions. I am still on vacation in Maui, and my time and software here is limited. I cropped and brightened this image in iPhoto, which provides quick and dirty editing. I will redo it in PhotoShop when I have the time, and your comments will be very helpful.
-- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2011, at 9:21 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> That's a great juxtaposition, but the composition is a little off. I don;t >> know maybe the bird should be a little more off center, maybe a vertical >> would be better. There's something really good here, you ust missed it by a >> tiny bit. > > I agree with P.J. I love the feeder and the bird, but feel that the > composition doesn't really have a point of focus. > > I would crop about a quarter off of the top, and just enough off the left to > put his eye right on the 1/3 x 1/3 upper left corner, that would make the > bird larger, and place him at a compsitionally stronger point to draw your > eye to. -- 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.
