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The All New More and More Fun With Digital M Images
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Lloyd
Active member
Hell, David. In Las Vegas, that would qualify as camouflage wouldn't it?
Lloyd
Active member
Leif, that's just flat beautiful. LOVE it!! :clap::clap::clap:
Lloyd
Active member
These are great. I particularly like that second shot (of the elderly couple). Very, very nice.
m_driscoll
New member
Wonderful photos and interesting stories. Thanks everybody.
Steve: Thanks for voting (either right or wrong; I'm not saying). I like the first one of the fence in color. The mold is very pretty. Cheers.
http://mdriscoll.zenfolio.com
Steve: Thanks for voting (either right or wrong; I'm not saying). I like the first one of the fence in color. The mold is very pretty. Cheers.
http://mdriscoll.zenfolio.com
Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
Today's post. M9 plus Tri-elmar @50 f4.0.
Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
Yesterday's post. M9. Three frames stitched taken with tri-elmar @35.
Lloyd
Active member
Steve! These are all terrific. I'm glad you posted both versions of that fence, each of which stands on its own qualities. Love the chessboard shot too. Boredom is the mother of inspiration, it seems.Few out of boredom..
M9, 75 Lux
Lloyd
Active member
Really wonderful light here, Woody. Great work.
m_driscoll
New member
Woody: +1. I like the tracery of the tree in the second shot with the water stains mirroring it to a degree. Might crop out the sliver of building at the top. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
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Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
thanks for the comment. I continue to be torn by the crop issue on this one. The crop you suggest improves the sense of calm and formality of the image. Leaving the space at the top makes it more jittery, especially since plane of the facade of the building behind is not parallel to the front building. The space at the top also echos the snow at the bottom. I opted for jittery - trying to create a tension between the formality of the front and the skewedness of the back. Maybe I should show more of the back (there is a bit more there to show).
Anyway - here are two different crops. Let me know what you think.
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tom in mpls
Active member
Woody, the tighter crop becomes abstract (I like it), wheras the wider crop is architecture.
Lloyd
Active member
Interesting results from the varying crops here. I agree with Tom about the tight crop, which tends to excentuate the contrast of the tree vs the formality of the building. The water on the building has a randomness that mirrors that of the tree, and I like that as well.
The second attachment, with more of the "back" visible creates a tension for me, that I can't decide about. I appears that the front building is not level on the horizontal plane, but the line of the windows of the front structure seems to line up with the rear structure on the vertical plane. That is more apparent in the second crop vs your original. Also, the larger, washed out areas of sky in the second version are a little distracting, as the relative brightness of those areas draws the eyes away from the main subject. It's true that there is some symmetry with the snow, but the effect really makes this a entirely different image than the tight crop, and suggests to me that each of them stands alone as a successful image.
All that said, if I had to choose just one, I'd go for the tighter crop. Allowing the randomness of the tree, and of the water on the building, to be focus of the image seems stronger overall. In that version, the lines of the building just become a contrasting counterpoint to the the random lines, which makes the former all the more interesting. My $.02 worth anyway. YMMV.
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jlp
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Leica M8.2 w/Konica M-Hexanon Dual 21/35mm f3.4/4.0 @21mm/f11
Leica M8.2 w/Konica M-Hexanon Dual 21/35mm f3.4/4.0 @21mm/f11
