[Leica] How is this crop?

[Aram]

Thanks Jim and Al and Jim and Ted.  These were my thoughts about why I 
cropped it the way I did, but other than Ted and you, the main consensus 
is that I should leave the background trees in the photo.  I don't 
know.  For my taste I am still leaning on keeping it vertical and 
keeping the background trees out of the photo for the reasons stated by 
Jim and Ted.  But I am thinking of perhaps loosing a bit more of the 
foreground.  I still like of like the boat in the far upper left rather 
than moving it more to the intersection of thirds.

Thanks for all the input.

Aram

Aram Langhans (Semi) Retired Science Teacher & Unemployed photographer 
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin 
himself would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
On 10/9/2017 2:17 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> Hi Aram:
>
> I like your crop as it is.  If you redo it with any more of the 
> background, then I think that you will lose some of the mystery/ambiance.
>
> The background is too busy for the rest of the image.
>
> Just my humble opinion.
>
> Jim H
>
>
> On 10/9/17 3:22 PM, Aram wrote:
>> I was looking at this photo I took a few days ago at Convict Lake in
>> California and decided I wanted to eliminate some of the background.
>>
>> Here is the whole frame:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f7/SC/Convict+Lake-5746.jpg.html
>>
>> And here is the crop I decided on:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f7/SC/Convict+Lake-5746-2.jpg.html
>>
>> Does it work for you?  Should I also crop some of the bottom? Any other
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Aram
>>
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