2 is nice. i like how evocative they are, with the touch of color. did you try cropping a little off the top of #2, or do you like the elongated shadow and the extra space, sense of motion and drama it gives?
um. dumb question, but i'm kind of curious what people choose to leave in and out of a photograph.
like.. it seems like it might be easier to look at, with the two white pieces.. wings? wing-like pieces. bracketing the.. uh. like, close to top and bottom. but does that just mess it up, or what?
do you mind talking about it, or does that make you feel weird?
Erk, I feel terrible for not responding to this. This was before I set up to get emailed comment notifications for this account!
In answer to your questions, er, I can't remember really all the details of what I decided when I was playing in photoshop. I think I might have experimented with cropping, but ultimately i liked to keep the weeds growing up around in the composition, it did give it more drama... Otherwise it just looks like bird bones, yaknow?
I also find with digital photography and framing that it's kind of wild. I often will just put the camera down somewhere or brace it against something, where I can't see the screen, and just see what it focuses on and how it frames it from that vantage. Sometimes I can't even see the screen because the light is too bright.
I find that really interesting - for me, digital photography is freeing because you don't have to have the camera right against your face to see what you're shooting, so there's more freedom to move it around, shoot from places where your eye physically can't see. And that freedom sticks around even at the times where you can't see the screen :)
It doesn't make me feel weird at all to talk photography, I quite like it! :)
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um. dumb question, but i'm kind of curious what people choose to leave in and out of a photograph.
like.. it seems like it might be easier to look at, with the two white pieces.. wings? wing-like pieces. bracketing the.. uh. like, close to top and bottom. but does that just mess it up, or what?
do you mind talking about it, or does that make you feel weird?
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In answer to your questions, er, I can't remember really all the details of what I decided when I was playing in photoshop. I think I might have experimented with cropping, but ultimately i liked to keep the weeds growing up around in the composition, it did give it more drama... Otherwise it just looks like bird bones, yaknow?
I also find with digital photography and framing that it's kind of wild. I often will just put the camera down somewhere or brace it against something, where I can't see the screen, and just see what it focuses on and how it frames it from that vantage. Sometimes I can't even see the screen because the light is too bright.
I find that really interesting - for me, digital photography is freeing because you don't have to have the camera right against your face to see what you're shooting, so there's more freedom to move it around, shoot from places where your eye physically can't see. And that freedom sticks around even at the times where you can't see the screen :)
It doesn't make me feel weird at all to talk photography, I quite like it! :)