Challenge 73, criticism?

Aiken

"complementary coincidence"

the two girls posed, the four others are coincidental.... ok, one was nudged slightly

any comments or suggestions, should i keep the bin?








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Nick Morgan

I think it's a nice, imaginiative idea, but it looks like it's hard to execute the idea because it requires you to be at a significant distant from the subjects. I would heavily crop this by lopping off the top third and bottom third to see if that enhances the geometry you're going for.

Aiken

do you think this works better?

SloYerRoll

Aiken, You are on the right path.
A perfect example of the right place at the right time.
A little more post production to get the final shot and I would post it.
Remember you only have until 12:00 monday NYC time to get this in so HURRY UP!!

-Jon

Aiken

so, rotated a little to make the wall straight and the girls a little more level...

colour tweaked just a touch, and two frame choices? any preference?




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douglas

The cropped version is a definate improvement IMO, I like the first frame best.

TomaS

I like #2 better too.

If you are not too burned out with PP, one further suggestion. I would expand the crop to include more from the lower portion of the original. The wall now splits it right in half.

SloYerRoll

The frames and all that jazz are up to you.
It's your shot. In the end you should own it.

JMO

-Jon