This is one of my favorites. I like the spiral of the reflection down into the horn.
Glyn
29-Oct-2008 07:41
Hi Moti: Try this ... crop down to just above the reflected tower ... thus losing upper right hair straggle and dark background. Crop in from the left to just behind the first reflected horn player - the one directly beneath the arc of reflected buildings. have a look at that and then crop further in from the left to just behind the biggest reflected horn player. Both of these are removing the dark background and also the very bright highlight on the left of the horn. IMO giving your subject/s less distraction from outside the extremes of their gamut range. Also emphasising the face-to-face real vs reflected horn players.
However ... both of my suggestions involve a big sacrifice: - the circle of the inner lip of the horn would be truncated as would the implied arc of the upper lip of the horn's bowl. And that would be a loss.
I will be coming back to this work of yours over the next few months - I've a lot of thinking to do. All the best
