How well does this work?

ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
edited June 18, 2004 in Technique
Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?

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If not now, when?

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  • cmr164cmr164 Registered Users Posts: 1,542 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    rutt wrote:
    Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?
    Intriguing but somehow I don't think it works. Maybe too busy?
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    IMHO, the kid is cute and in a nice position. The reflection in the windshield is prominent, but doesn't tell a story, so becomes a distraction rather than an enhancement. If it told a story, you'd have a nice multi-layer image. ne_nau.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    re best or worst, LoL
    rutt wrote:
    Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?

    I can't decide if it works, and I don't know your other work that well, hahaha.
    Could be your best, but I rather doubt it.

    I can't get excited about it. That kind of thing is dicey, IMO, and needs to be spot on. This misses.................... somewhere. I think.

    ginger
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    IMHO, the kid is cute and in a nice position. The reflection in the windshield is prominent, but doesn't tell a story, so becomes a distraction rather than an enhancement. If it told a story, you'd have a nice multi-layer image. ne_nau.gif
    Yeah, I agree with that as a criticism of the shot as narrative. I liked the shot as a composition and I liked the colors of the reflections. So it could be better, no doubt. It's hard to make the reflections works as narrative, but they are something you see all the time...
    If not now, when?
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
    rutt wrote:
    Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?

    I can't decide if it works, and I don't know your other work that well, hahaha.
    Could be your best, but I rather doubt it.

    I can't get excited about it. That kind of thing is dicey, IMO, and needs to be spot on. This misses.................... somewhere. I think.

    ginger
    Thanks, Ginger. Faulkner said, "The parent loves his problem child best." Maybe that's what's going on with me and this picture.
    If not now, when?
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    rutt wrote:
    Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?
    The way it is it doesn't work for me, but how about this?
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    Sam wrote:
    The way it is it doesn't work for me, but how about this?
    Thank you. That is an improvement. After all the Cartier-Bresson thought over the weekend, cropping was pretty far from my mind. But I'm certainly not HCB, and so I have to keep it in mind.
    If not now, when?
  • WolfWolf Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    Sam wrote:
    The way it is it doesn't work for me, but how about this?
    I think this helps, somehow, removing the mirror and the couple walking on the right side of the frame makes the little boy more the focus of the shot. The right side of the frame seemed to be distracting to me, now the child looks more contemplative, like maybe he's thinking of taking that firetruck for a drive... Just my 2 cents.
  • WolfWolf Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    Wolf wrote:
    I think this helps, somehow, removing the mirror and the couple walking on the right side of the frame makes the little boy more the focus of the shot. The right side of the frame seemed to be distracting to me, now the child looks more contemplative, like maybe he's thinking of taking that firetruck for a drive... Just my 2 cents.
    Oops, hope that is a firetruck, if not, just truck!
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2004
    Wolf wrote:
    Oops, hope that is a firetruck, if not, just truck!
    That's part of why I didn't think to crop. I wanted to leave in the firetruck clues. But the cropped image is a much stronger composition.
    If not now, when?
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,943 moderator
    edited June 18, 2004
    rutt wrote:
    Can't decide whether this is one of my best or one of my worst. Does it work for you?
    I like the kid, the fire truck and the obvious wonderment in the child's
    eyes. I think the reflection of the tree spoils what otherwise would be
    a nice picture. I wonder if you diffused the tree's reflection and maybe
    darkened the remainder of the window?

    Cropping this would be difficult. Because the FT is very much a part of the
    "story".

    ian
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