I agree, but it doesn't show the little outcrop on which he is perched, which is what attracted my eye.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:22 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > this second shot is much more interesting in all sorts of ways > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18180597 > > ann > > > On 2/3/2016 1:31 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> Beautiful setting and interesting subject which, unfortunately, >> becomes an unnecessarily static image by its center placement. When a >> subject is looking in a given direction, don't we long to see more of >> what he's looking at (that side of the image) and less of what is >> behind? Fortunately, this can be improved with a crop. (Perhaps this >> image is already a crop of the full frame?) >> >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, Larry and Jack. >>> >>> I may indeed try cropping it to a square or portrait format when I get >>> the time. >>> >>> This is another angle on the same subject: >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18180597 >>> >>> but it doesn't convey the way the rock juts out from the surrounding >>> hillside. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18182370&size=lg >>>>> K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 >>>>> Comments are appreciated >>>> >>>> >>>> Very interesting shot. It looks like you were wrestling with some >>>> challenging dynamic range there. Normally, putting him in the center >>>> like >>>> that would be problematic, but it seems to work in this case, perhaps >>>> because he is incorporated in the line of the rock. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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.

