> -----Original Message----- > From: kostas papakotas [mailto:kostaspapakotas@hotmail.com] > > Greg Fraser - Edison Art > with a subject as SHARP as electricity i would preffer a softier > background...an to my ees it would seem more fitting to crop > right were the > right line meets the end of frame. Thanks Kostas. I like the idea of a soft background to contrast the perceived sharpness of electricity. This is a flatbed scan of a 35mm neg and the grain is actually scanner crap. I haven't yet begun printing but when I get to it, I imagine a print of this will actually have a soft background. The sky was quite flat. As for the cropping, I imagine you mean to crop vertically where the right wire hits the right hand side of the frame. I purposely cropped the way I did because I wanted the lines to appear to go on for ever and I found that cropping with the large open space between the middle two wires running out of the corner. I tried cropping it with a wire hitting the corner but found that that gave me the impression of a finite edge to the composition whereas this cropping gives me the sense of breaking up the edge of the image and I get a sense that the space between the lines continues past the edge of the frame. Perhaps that makes no sense but its kind of hard to explain. Anyway thanks for the comments. Greg
