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Author Topic: Framing technique-which photo is best?  (Read 541 times)
Tom Hildreth
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« on: October 08, 2005, 02:02:36 PM »

Maybe I can recruit you folks to help me out. I'm looking for feedback primarily regarding image framing, but can tolerate other comments as well.  

PICTURE BACKGROUND INFO: Coming back home from the September 11 Fly-in and boat show at Basin Harbor, Vermont I still had a few frames of TMAX-100 left in the camera. I stopped at this location on Rt. 22A which I had noticed in the morning on the way up. There was a fog layer lifting then and it really looked good backlit with the sun coming up, but we didn't have time to stop. Coming back it was a clear sky with the bright sun behind me. Located a vantage point in an old cemetary and worked a few shots. As usual, I'm unable to easily pick a favorite. Which of the three do you think is best, and why?

CAMERA/LENS INFO: Photos were taken hand-held with a Minolta X-370 with MC Rokkor 135mm lens and K2 yellow filter.

SCANNING INFO: These were scanned as B&W positives, inverted and RGB level adjusted in PSE after a little cropping or image rotation (As you may have suspected, I'm just a little off plumb).

These are hosted at Photobucket.com.  This is my first attempt to use them with my new subscription. I learned today that I must have all my account there visible publicly or none of it, which dissapoints me. I had hoped to be able to control which "sub albums" were visible individually.

Thanks a bunch for your time and comments. I'll be working on showing the boat show here soon.

PHOTO TWO



PHOTO THREE



PHOTO FOUR

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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2005, 02:31:41 PM »

Tom - I would consider the last image with a brutal crop. Those braches in the fore are really mucking up the nice view.
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2005, 02:52:25 PM »

I like Photo Four (and what happened to Photo One?), but I wouldn't crop it; I like it just the way it is.  The out of focus branches at the right give a sense of depth, of "I'm standing somewhere real, not just floating in midair" and tie the viewer to the subject.  IMO, obviously...
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