Girl in the Window

BMW KurtBMW Kurt Registered Users Posts: 229 Major grins
edited September 2, 2014 in People
I took this shot yesterday at a street festival. This young lady was on the second floor of her building just watching the goings on on the street below.

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I really like the way she was framed in the window and cropped it just to include here and the window to change the photo from landscape to portrait. I personally really like it, but it still needs something. Suggestions are welcome! And let me have it... I have pretty thick skin.

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  • Jim McClainJim McClain Registered Users Posts: 60 Big grins
    edited September 1, 2014
    I might have gotten more of the window frame in that your first photo, so as to place her in the lower-left third part of the picture. As it is, she's too centered, but off-center in that photograph. I like the window frame and brick. It adds character to the image. There there is the dilemma of her being slightly over exposed and the room behind her slightly under exposed. I would prefer to see some faint shapes of furnishings or something on the walls behind her - not enough to know what it was, but enough to know it's a real room. I might also have warmed up her skin tones a little and brought out a bit of shadow detail and vibrancy in the brick and window frame. She is a very pretty girl and I would have wanted to make her as beautiful as possible.

    Jim
  • WachelWachel Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2014
    Yep ^^^^

    Good possibilities though.
    Michael

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  • D3SshooterD3Sshooter Registered Users Posts: 1,188 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2014
    The crop does not work at all, the first picture is ok for street photography. But maybe you can straighten the wall on the right. A B&W version with some grain might work very well.
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  • BMW KurtBMW Kurt Registered Users Posts: 229 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2014
    I was just thinking about a conversion. I think you are right. Not done yet, but I like this better.

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  • D3SshooterD3Sshooter Registered Users Posts: 1,188 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2014
    Hi Kurt, B&W works for me….. but the wall is now wrong on the bottom…. It is not a matter of rotating , you can you transform in Photoshop . Many options allow you to correct the image in all directions.

    Thanks for showing
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  • BMW KurtBMW Kurt Registered Users Posts: 229 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2014
    D3Sshooter wrote: »
    Hi Kurt, B&W works for me….. but the wall is now wrong on the bottom…. It is not a matter of rotating , you can you transform in Photoshop . Many options allow you to correct the image in all directions.

    Thanks for showing

    I noticed that. The building itself is actually leaning. It is an old building (by American standards). :D

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