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Subject: [Leica] Lonely Tree
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:41:11 -0800
References: <A04220D0-B90F-4142-B0F3-331F79E73297@acm.org>

Herbert Kanner OFFERED:
Subject: [Leica] Lonely Tree


> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1002763-2.jpg.html<<<<<<<

Hi Herb,
Please, nothing personal...... it's a critique... my right or wrong?

Title?  Sometimes a title isn't worth the screen it's written on. As in this 
case of the "Lonely Tree?" It isn't a lone tree as you've composed the frame 
and what the title implies. You are close, but "close only counts in a game 
of Horse shoes. :-)

1/ If you shot this in a slim tall vertical format.......... center tree 
only with blue sky and some foreground?  It would have been a "Lonely tree." 
Purely in the singular and lonely aspect.

But in this case what wrecks the title and completely takes away from the 
photo simplicity of title and "single tree completely!" Are:

1/ The street lamp post!
2/ The tree, trees? on the right hand side even more so eliminating the 
"Lone Tree" aspect.
3/ And over on the left side of frame another tree sticking into the frame!

Adding titles quite often take away from the impact of any photo. By the 
same token a "Major title fitting the content smack in ones face title also 
increases the over all visual impact of the photo itself." BUT?

No offense intended. May I suggest a re-crop and see what a difference it 
makes?   Maybe! One must always have a disclaimer attached! ;-)

cheers,
Dr. ted





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