I am usually a champion of cropping. When I clicked through to your image I had already seen the others’ suggestions about maybe going more minimal by cropping some elements. I toyed with the idea of a square crop of just the foreground bricks and the main brick walkway. And also with a crop that would take some off the top to eliminate the distraction of the chair.
For me, neither of those would work. What I see as the main subject in the image is/are the dead leaves on the walkway toward the upper part of the image. The interesting lines of sunshine in the foreground are just there. On their own, it would be just a pattern. But my eye goes past those lines and the chair and the “noise” on the left edge help guide my attention to the leaves. In short, I like it as it is. If it were mine and if I were to do anything else, I would darken the bricks so that they receded further in the background. Though I do like Larry’s notion of having a nude lying on the walkway (as though she were sunbathing?) And then the chair and leaves etc could be/should be cropped because then the composition would have a point of interest. Stan > On Apr 3, 2021, at 11:58 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > A March leftover: Sunlight shining through our back yard fence on a March > afternoon: > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/March-2021/Miscellany/i-vpMpxzK/A > > (K-5, DA 17-70) > > Comments always appreciated, from withering criticism to blush-inducing > flattery. > > Rick > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
