Thanks Dan, Larry, and Stan! I played with various crops for a while too, and finally decided that the edge of the flower bed, leaves, and chair each had roes to play. When I cropped any of them out it didn’t “work” anymore.
Puzzles me too! Rick > On Apr 5, 2021, at 4:47 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am usually a champion of cropping. When I clicked through to your image I > had already seen the others’ suggestions about maybe going more minimal by > cropping some elements. > I toyed with the idea of a square crop of just the foreground bricks and the > main brick walkway. And also with a crop that would take some off the top to > eliminate the distraction of the chair. > > For me, neither of those would work. What I see as the main subject in the > image is/are the dead leaves on the walkway toward the upper part of the > image. The interesting lines of sunshine in the foreground are just there. On > their own, it would be just a pattern. But my eye goes past those lines and > the chair and the “noise” on the left edge help guide my attention to the > leaves. > > In short, I like it as it is. If it were mine and if I were to do anything > else, I would darken the bricks so that they receded further in the > background. Though I do like Larry’s notion of having a nude lying on the > walkway (as though she were sunbathing?) And then the chair and leaves etc > could be/should be cropped because then the composition would have a point of > interest. > > Stan > > >> On Apr 3, 2021, at 11:58 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A March leftover: Sunlight shining through our back yard fence on a March >> afternoon: >> >> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/March-2021/Miscellany/i-vpMpxzK/A >> >> (K-5, DA 17-70) >> >> Comments always appreciated, from withering criticism to blush-inducing >> flattery. >> >> Rick >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
