Wood work

[acorreia]

EXIF for the last one: Date Modified   2007-03-08 16:12:56 Date Taken   2007-03-08 09:02:00 Camera Canon EOS 20D Exposure Time 1/40 Aperture f/5.0 ISO   400 Focal Length 16mm * 1,6 Flash fired, compulsory flash mode, red-eye reduction mode Exposure Program   shutter priority Exposure Bias   0 EVExposure Mode auto White Balance auto Color Space sRGB

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[howiesmith]

Of the three, I personally like the second best.  

I like eye contact with the subject.  

I would crop this rather tighter than shown.  As is, to me it looks like a photo of a wood shop with a worker and the shop isn't very interesting to me.  Crop the left and right sides out and it it starts to look more like a protrait of a wood worker to me.  Then I might crop some off the top to put the worker's eyes more where I expect the photo's subject to be.

I also like the perspective of the wood frame around the worker.  The worker's blue sweater seperates him from the background very nicely.

I would clone out or burn down the light leaks at the ceiling.  I want to look at them and there just isn't anything there to see.

[acorreia]

Of the three, I personally like the second best. 

I like eye contact with the subject. 

I would crop this rather tighter than shown.  As is, to me it looks like a photo of a wood shop with a worker and the shop isn't very interesting to me.  Crop the left and right sides out and it it starts to look more like a protrait of a wood worker to me.  Then I might crop some off the top to put the worker's eyes more where I expect the photo's subject to be.

I also like the perspective of the wood frame around the worker.  The worker's blue sweater seperates him from the background very nicely.

I would clone out or burn down the light leaks at the ceiling.  I want to look at them and there just isn't anything there to see.
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Thank you for the comment !

[acorreia]

Thank you for the comment !
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Do you mean using the rule of thirds ?
It's agood ideia ...
I'll try.

[jule]

acorreia, thanks for posting your images. They remind me of my Dad pottering in his shed!
What about this?
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Julie

[howiesmith]

acorreia, thanks for posting your images. They remind me of my Dad pottering in his shed!
What about this?
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Julie
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Exactly what I was thinking.  I believe (and been mocked for believing) the rule of thids works very well more often than not.

[acorreia]

Exactly what I was thinking.  I believe (and been mocked for believing) the rule of thids works very well more often than not.
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Indeed. You are absolutely right !
The rule of the thirds works pretty well.
I like your crop.
When I cropped the picture I try to balance it but you made a better job.

Don't care about the others who mock you for applying the rule. Just apply and say nothing to them.
One day - I am listening to Donald Fagen on Pandora, which I like very much - I have posted 2 or 3 pictures and evrybody liked best the one which was cropped under the 3.eds.

Where are you from ?

[howiesmith]

Where are you from ?
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Born in Ohio, raised all around the USA, now retired in Arizona.  I don't lose any sleep over mockers of thirds.  Thirds worked long before any of us were born and will work long after all of us are gone.

[acorreia]

Born in Ohio, raised all around the USA, now retired in Arizona.  I don't lose any sleep over mockers of thirds.  Thirds worked long before any of us were born and will work long after all of us are gone.
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You remind me janin Joplin: "that's it ... " and she laughed.
You do know this song don't you ?

BTW Do you know [a href=\"http://www.openphotographyforums.com/index.php]http://www.openphotographyforums.com/index.php[/url]this forum ? It's very good. Try it.
Cheers !