Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I found the shapes, lines and textures in the foreground quite interesting and leading my eye into the frame. Without that foreground I feel like I'm just standing there looking at the horizon. While the foreground may not have had a lot to it in the screen .jpg; I have a feeling that, in a print, it would stand up well as important information to the "place" and it's shapes, lines and textures; which in a black and white photograph is 75% of the compositional elements, with only values left to consider. YMMV Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Apr 30, 2007, at 7:29 PM, G Hopkinson wrote: > George, when you comment on a composition I always listen. You mean > the horizon line not centred in the original? I had suggested > that Ira try the crop to see what he thought. My impression was > that the foreground bare dirt area wasn't essential and some from > the right to end the horizon line at the trees. Maybe if there was > an element with more detail at the end of the path at bottom? > Please expand on your comments. I'm sure that Ira and I would be > very interested.