On Mar 5, 2012, at 4:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I only rarely make suggestions as to what someone might do to improve a > photo, but I'll make an exception here. :-) > > This is a beautiful photo. The only thing that bothers me is the bullseye > effect. I don't want the flower bigger or filling more of the frame, but a > slight crop just to get the bloom off centre would make a very good photo > even better imho.
That's pretty much what I had in mind, though not being nearly as subtle as Frank, I would have cropped enough to put it pretty close to the 1/3-1/3 point of one of the corners, if not fairly tight into the corner itself. Things like the flower can work in the center, if they are perfectly in the center (imnsho), but in this case I think it would be better off any place but the center. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> > Sent: March 5, 2012 3/5/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Adrift > > Thanks, Don. > > If the current version doesn't convey the idea of a tide pool. I might > as well crop out much of it to focus more clearly on the flower. > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dan I hadn't had a chance to comment on this photo yet. It sounds like you >> were documenting a scene and when you look at this picture it tells you that >> story. Looking at it I kinda got that story though we don't have many tide >> pools in Midwest.:) >> >> So I agree with Larry a tighter crop would be better art, more universal, >> but not document what you saw. Your call. >> >> >> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:46:40 -0500 >>> From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: PESO: Adrift >>> Message-ID: >>> >>> <CAOmwt1zvwp3vk_YzPXdiQy536D3V2PgnYS1g7w_fSkqR=gs...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >>> >>> >>> Thanks for the comment and suggestion. >>> >>> I can certainly crop it tighter, but I wanted to include enough of the >>> water and rocks to make it cleat that I found the flower floating in a >>> tide pool on the beach. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Very nice, but I'd like to see it cropped a lot tighter on the flower. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3/4/2012 3:23 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15293072 >>>>> >>>>> Comments and criticisms are invited >>>>> >>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
