I was looking through my recent pictures and began reconsidering the Daily Life shot I posted this week. Here's what I posted:
I cropped in as tight as I could, but kept the small bit of space available on the right side so as to give him room to move into.
Now I've thought of another take on it. I'm sharing it because I'd like to get other peoples' thoughts about it, and also because I'd like to encourage others to post their own thinking processes about their own photos.
Moments before I took the one above, I snapped the guy using the wide angle lens on my phone (these are both iPhone pictures). Here's the original:
Here's my thought for what to do with it:
I straightened the image to make the corner of the building vertical. Then I cropped it. I chose a wider view to emphasize the length of the building, and cropped off the space on the right. I figured the lady had to go because I like the illusion that this guy is alone in the world, just him and his shopping carts. Also, cropping off the right makes it unclear what's in front of him. Now the viewer doesn't know how far the building extends to the left, or how much farther he might be pushing those baskets toward the right.
I'd be interested in any responses you might have about what I did, or which image you prefer, or what you might have done in this situation.
And also, I'd love to learn what other people are doing with their own images, and why and how.
Interesting. I downloaded your image and did my own thing and it was very similar to your edit. I cropped tighter on the right so the carts were about to leave the frame, straightened as you did but cropped the bottom more so the white arrow went as I feel it is a bit distracting.
ReplyDeleteGood point about the arrow. It is a little distracting, and if I did further edits I'd probably try to crop it out. I haven't checked your image yet, so I'm not sure about cropping more off the right. Camellia thinks I cropped too much already, and she's the Queen. 🤣
DeleteI tried my hand at your photo before reading Peter's comments. I definitely agree with you as far as the lady needing to dissapear, but at the same time I feel that the amount of cropping you did on the right side of the photo makes the photo incomplete in my eyes. I feel like I need to see more of the front of the store. The black and white you posted yesterday, in my eyes looks really nice as far as the framing goes and without even enlarging, because of the way fb displayes photos, it was perfect for me (I did enlarge in fb as well and it was still perfect, in my eyes). But over here, without enlarging the photo, it seems lost....too much white background surrouding the right side. Enlarged with a black background it stands out more. I hope this makes sense, and if it doesn't that's ok too. I am going to post my version of your photo for you see what I would have done.
ReplyDeleteI made some comments on the one you posted. I like how you (and Peter) added more black sky at the top, which emphasizes that it's the dark of night (actually it was about 6pm, but the viewer doesn't need to know that 😎). The arrows add something in a way, but they could be distracting. Also, I'm concerned the subject would be too small if I didn't crop some off the bottom.
DeleteThanks for your thoughts on this, and any more you'd want to add. The image had a bunch of problems to start with, so it would never be possible to make it a perfect picture. Right now I'd probably add back more of the sky, add a little more space on the right, and crop out some of the bottom.
ReplyDeleteWe all look at the world differently. It's interesting to see other takes on the same starting point.
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