At the Farmers Market

WhatSheSaw

Original?


Or Cropped?

Richard

Unless the crop is really subtle, I think I'm looking at identical pics. Check your links.

WhatSheSaw

Thanks! I re-uploaded the original and cropped outside of SmugMug this time.

phillybikeboy

In the uncropped shot my eye is immediately drawn to the yellow bucket, so losing it is probably a good thing. The problem is, in the cropped shot I don't know where and what I'm supposed to be looking at. Sorry, but I really don't get it.

WhatSheSaw

Thanks for the comment, phillybikeboy! I was drawn to the little girl. Perhaps closer is better, but I thought the context contributed.

Here are a couple of others. Are these any better or do they still leave you cold?

phillybikeboy

WhatSheSaw wrote:

Thanks for the comment, phillybikeboy! I was drawn to the little girl. Perhaps closer is better, but I thought the context contributed.

I suspected that was the case, but the big guy scratching his head in the foreground throws the whole thing off. My first inclination is to think there is some connection between him and the little girl that I'm just not seeing.

wrote:

Here are a couple of others. Are these any better or do they still leave you cold?

Kind of. You're right, the context contributes quite a bit. If you had the wide shot, without the guy in the foreground, it would work better.

WhatSheSaw

Then, does this one work?

phillybikeboy

Much better.

bdcolen

WhatSheSaw wrote:

Thanks for the comment, phillybikeboy! I was drawn to the little girl. Perhaps closer is better, but I thought the context contributed.

Here are a couple of others. Are these any better or do they still leave you cold?

These two are much better than the first image you offered. The problem with the first one, whether cropped or not, is that there are too many competing bright colors, and the little girl is too far off. Here we really see her, and are forced to think about who and what she is and what she's doing.