Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alan, Thanks for your comments. Constructive criticism is not "harsh", and I very much appreciate it. I address your specific comments below. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jul 20, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: >> ........................................................................................................ > As usual, your pictures were fun to view, but I have to say that in > a lot of > them, I wished for slightly different compositions. > > Here I think it needs more ground under the pavilion for stability: > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/5472430_bCAV5#334606122_kdz46 I had to crop the image the way I did because there was stuff in the foreground that I did not want in the pictures. > > > This one needs the whole wagon and banner showing: > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/5472430_bCAV5#334605631 Agree on that. But I took the picture while walking past, he was obviously doing this thing, and so there was not time to recompose or reshoot. To paraphrase Ted, it was a case of "Look, that's neat-- CLICK" and then the moment was gone. Street photography is like that. > > > I wish the whole arch of the "Turbo" was included: > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/5472430_bCAV5#334606741_7phVb On that one I have to plead guilty as charged. The action was not fast- moving, so I could certainly have zoomed out by walking backwards (remember that all these are with a 25mm lens). I don't remember if there was anything behind me that prevented me from doing so. > > > But I am completely happy with my favorite: > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/5472430_bCAV5#334606958_VyVaS > This is a wonderful composition. > Glad you like that one. The composition is a result of careful cropping in Lightroom, there was more extraneous stuff around the edges. > I don't want to come off as harsh, or a know-it-all, but I'd like to > recommend scanning > the edges of the viewfinder for inclusion or exclusion of design > elements (when time permits, > of course). Easy for me to say, huh? ;~} As I said, for this kind of photography it is not always possible. In general, I obviously prefer inclusion to exclusion. I can always crop tighter in Lightroom, but if I have chopped off a limb, it is impossible to recover what was not on the sensor in the first place. Again, thanks for looking and for the critique. >