On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 4:35 AM, frank theriault wrote: > >> I added a bit of grain to give it that "TriX" look: >> >> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/10/hearing-voices.html >> >> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > I love the concept. The "grain" makes it a bit rough for my liking, but I > don't know what you're starting with. If a photo is a little rough, I find > it's often best to just go with it and push it this hard. > > I think it might work better if "Voices" were a bit more prominent. Three > possible crops: > > A square crop, taking out the door to the left, which I don't think adds > enough context to be worth the pixels. > A vertical crop, just to the left of the standing woman (probably my favorite) > A horizontal crop with the upper left corner aligned with the upper left > corner of the lower window. That would really emphasize "Voices" and would > be an entirely different picture.
Thanks, Larry. I rather like the thought of a square crop and will give that a try (not now because I'm not on my home computer. Thanks for the constructive criticism and the kind words. Thanks to everyone else who 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.
