On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
> FLAME ON!! (Just kidding -- <g>) Thanks for the comments, Chris -- they're
> much appreciated. This was a shot from my grandson's birthday party almost
> three years ago, and we adults were having so much fun that I apparently
> didn't pay as much attention to properly composing the horizontal elements
> in the shot as I should have.
If you want to know a secret, I don't really care how my background
geometry looks, except for how it works with the foreground. If it works
when I tilt it 40 degrees, then so be it. You can get some great effects
that way, as long as you don't overdo it.
> I generally don't like to do too much geometric manipulation
> (rotation, extensive cropping, etc.) on scanned images -- seems too
> much like "cheating". However, I went back to this particular image
> and did a small rotation to get the playground swing and the top of
> the building lined up parallel with the egde of the frame. This only
> required one degree of rotation! I'm amazed how such a subtle
> adjustment can have such a noticeable effect on the overall
> composition. Lesson learned! That's what I like about this list and
> these monthly galleries.
One degree?! Wow. You learn something new here every day.
chris
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