John- Thanks for the input. I am actually not just starting out in the photography business, just the pj side of things. I have been selling my images for 15 years to big corporations for their corporate art galleries, so I don't make mistakes anymore like trees sticking out of heads (although I do remember those days!). I just think that the rules are different for photojournalism because you are dealing more with realism. Now, that doesn't mean that the cloth is not distracting even in photojournalism. That is what I am trying to find out. Now, for a portrait, I guess it would be. But, in photojournalism, so much of the time you tend to break the rules like having half a blurred face in the foreground, an arm sticking out here and there, etc. None of these things would be acceptable in other types of photography. Anyway, that's the question I am posing. Does the image not work coming from a photojournalism point of view? I would love some feedback from someone in the field (John, if you are in the field, thanks so much for the feedback and I guess I will have to be more conscientious even in pj.). << Leslie, I remember when I started out a long time ago it really upset me when I saw--to my dismay--some flaw or other, like for instance, a tree growing out of someone's head that I didn't see when I was making the image. The best cure for that is to just keep shooting and vowing not to make the same mistakes twice. In time you'll have made them all, and then get pissed again when you make some entirely new ones. >>
