Hi guys, Thank you for your comments and suggestion. I think I did originally compose the shot with the rocks as an element to form a triangle, (hopefully) leading one's eye to the girl (one of my daughters). I ended up liking the effect with the space behind her also, as I thought this added to the sense of space. Maybe the sky could be cropped a little, but I don't often get clouds that good, so I left it all in!
Thanks again for your critiques,
Richard.
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04-Mar-2004 08:39
Nice, but stones at FG take the focus instead of the girl.
I have to agree with Feri on the sky crop. Hard to crop such nice clouds eh? The forground choice is good. There are some other options (like Feri's idea, or moving the person closer to the left edge of the frame to show the emptyness in front) but your choice is fine with me.
Hi Richard,lovely theme, lovely place, very well complies with the subject of "ALONE", yet I have some thoughts on the composition itself. Probably moving to the left while shooting would have yielded a bit more pleasant framing of the picture by pulling the stones to the right side and positioning the young girl a bit left. This would have the benefit of letting the viewers see just a bit more of what she is observing, while leaving the stones as a kinda decoration and a relativity point of dimensionality. Meanwhile on another thought, I think cropping off the top of the sky resulting in the horizon moving upwards would have helped to make the shot a flawless capture. Finally, the title could be a bit more abstract than a narrative description of where the shot was taken. But that's just me. Cheers, Feri.
Nice photograph, with a very nice structure. The pebble in the front give a good sense of depth, and the lines of the waves take you to the person in the water which is the focus of the picture. Title could be better.
