Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Richard, > From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> > > Philippe - Nice shot. I like the way the shadow and sunlit portions > of the picture lead your eye to the rainbow. I tried tighter > cropping on the crane to eliminate the cobblestone dock. That made > the rainbow more prominent, but that may not have been the effect you > were looking for. I tried different croppings, but I liked this one the most. I tend to crop in function of image composition: division of the main rectangle in smaller and equal proportioned rectangles, use of diagonals and (optical) phi etc. Some 20 years ago, in art school, I attended composition classes from an old professor who tought us the principles of the classic rectangles (used by the Greeks, but also in Rennaisance, Gothic period and Baroque), and somehow it got into my system. Interstnig stuff to read about this at http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/GoldenSection.htm