> -----Original Message----- > > Greg Fraser - Playground > http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/fraser.html > A well seen abstract. The picture is not just about the shapes in the > playground, mostly shown in silhouette, but also about the sky. The > plain vivid blue to the left of the curve fighting the clouds to the > right. I like this image a lot. Were it mine I would crop down from > the top just enough to remove the upper supporting strut and from the > right to move the basket ball net to the right corner. That is just > an interpretation however, and my way of simplifying. > > For this image as shown, the only real flaw is in the clouds: they > have not rendered very well at all. The sunlit part is almost > featureless to the extent that it distracts from the other patterns in > the image. As with Dan's image: this is a place you can revisit. It > is a set worth experimenting with. Take a tripod for composition ... > go at the weekend when you won't feel so hurried. > > It is a good shot nevertheless: 18 Thanks so much for the review and thanks for going that extra mile and putting links not only to the gallery but to each individual image. To me this shot is a battle between the poles and the curve of the slide. Cropping the top left support weakened the attack and cropping the basketball net to the corner (I considered this for quite a while) anchored the basketball net and I wanted it free to attack the slide. As for revisiting the site I find that I need a lot of time between doing that but I likely will visit again. It's not that I think this shot is perfect but I get bored of any subject immediately after shooting it. Thank again for the review and I appreciate your suggestions. Greg
