On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll provide a contrarian opinion on this one Frank. As part of a series, > nice shot. On its own as you present it, I don't think it communicates. This > is one of those shots that relates to my bias about captions or titles: I > prefer shots that stand on their own. Your shot the other day of the person > at a table in the bookstore was a very good shot, well composed, it told a > story, you didn't need a caption or comment. This one needs the > caption/title, and I think that makes it weaker. > Specifically, unless you had told me, I wouldn't know that this is the > "bottom" of a hill. Because it is a tight shot, there is no indication of > slope , and it could just as well have been a flat field someplace, or a > playground. The same shot, but wider with a steep(?) hill out of focus in > the background would have worked better for me.
Your points are all well-taken, Stan. Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Thanks to everyone else who looked and commented. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
