> -----Original Message----- > From: Qkano [mailto:wildimages@lineone.net] > > Greg Fraser - Summer Evening > > Yup, you sure have a distinctive style. A lovely picture for sure. > As presented - your crop - I only wonder if the glasses are one > element too many ... maybe I don't take to their angle. > > To get not picky (and end where "my" style and Greggies always seems > to differ) I would have lost the stuff at the top abouve the > horizontal lines. Either at the taking stage or before presenting it > here. To me that top 1/6 of the image is not needed ... Bob, thanks for the comments. I too have marveled at how our opinions of images have almost always been opposite. The sunglasses were on the table when I saw this scene but I placed them at this angle on purpose to be perpendicular to the slats in the deck boards. I felt there were too many lines heading into the top right corner and I prefer to have something in the image to bring the eye in more than one direction. That's the same reason I cropped the top as I did. I tried cropping the top as you suggest but I found it made the shadows too abstract for my liking. I wanted the image to give the feeling of being there on the deck as opposed to being a purely graphic shot. Greg
