On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:17:39 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/10/04, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2815736&size=lg > > > >Comments, as always, are welcomed and encouraged. > > Very nice but think 'background', mate. If you're out and about, borrow a > box to stand and and get your butt in the air baby. Look down at her (and > the bikes in the rack). > > Of course this may be a putrid vantage point for you and you can > therefore tell me to get my butt on a bike and pedal off into the focal > distance ;-) >
Point taken. At the time I took it I was thinking of getting all the Urban Crap (street, buildings, cars) in there for atmosphere. I think I shot it at about f4.0, but I now think ideally I should have opened up wide (it's an f2.0 lens) to get the background more OOF. I thought at the time that getting ~too~ much of the bikes in there would be too cluttered with bikes, but you may be right. In retrospect I'd like to have shot the way you suggest, and also with my framing but at f2.0, as I think either of those would improved on what I have. Thanks for looking, and I appreciate your thoughts and well-reasoned critique, Cotty. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
