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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on May 15, 2011, 06:47:53 pm
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Light through a window this weekend presented what looked like an opportunity. Please critique this result.
Bruce
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Light through a window this weekend presented what looked like an opportunity. Please critique this result.
Bruce
I usually refrain from commenting here, as Kirk will verify, but I think your title is very misleading: where the hell's the bust?
Rob C
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I can see a potential image here but some cropping will have to be done to the sides and bottom. The head has already been cropped when you pressed the shutter button. A better composition would have been better at the point of capture? Some nice side lighting on the bust. My take on the cropping but others may suggest something better? ;)
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I usually refrain from commenting here, as Kirk will verify, but I think your title is very misleading: where the hell's the bust?
Rob C
From the free online dictionary: "2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a sculpture of the head, shoulders, and upper chest of a person."
In the art world, a "bust" doesn't have to include the part that you prefer to focus on, Rob.
Eric
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I usually refrain from commenting here, as Kirk will verify, but I think your title is very misleading: where the hell's the bust?
Rob C
My apologies: Knowing I was wrong, I had consulted a dictionary, which confirmed it, but I wished to pose behind a classy title. ["classy title" being another way of saying {Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms}] I do not often enough stop to consider the pain I may inflict by not being more simply accurate. And it is hard to argue that it would not be better off with a bust.
Bruce
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I can see a potential image here but some cropping will have to be done to the sides and bottom. The head has already been cropped when you pressed the shutter button. A better composition would have been better at the point of capture? Some nice side lighting on the bust. My take on the cropping but others may suggest something better? ;)
I think your crop is an improvement. Good call.
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I can see a potential image here but some cropping will have to be done to the sides and bottom. The head has already been cropped when you pressed the shutter button. A better composition would have been better at the point of capture? Some nice side lighting on the bust. My take on the cropping but others may suggest something better? ;)
The movement of the sun had cropped the top of the head this late in the shoot. I tried to apply your idea to an earlier frame with more hair [there were 69, what with wind in the trees making the light move and flicker], but came back to this one. Thanks, for the help.
Bruce
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The movement of the sun had cropped the top of the head this late in the shoot. I tried to apply your idea to an earlier frame with more hair [there were 69, what with wind in the trees making the light move and flicker], but came back to this one. Thanks, for the help.
Frankly, I prefer stamper's crop.
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Frankly, when you get short-changed in the bust department, art flies oot the windae, as they might say in Scotland (help, stamper, can't spell the lingo!)
Okay, declaration: of course bust was the correct word; just trying to lift my gloom is all. Oy veh, already!
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Rob C
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Frankly, when you get short-changed in the bust department, art flies oot the windae, as they might say in Scotland (help, stamper, can't spell the lingo!)
Okay, declaration: of course bust was the correct word; just trying to lift my gloom is all. Oy veh, already!
; - (
Rob C
Sometimes, I scare too easily; it was quite early in the morning here...
Bruce
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Frankly, I prefer stamper's crop.
I don't know if it argues for the crop one way or the other, but because stamper's thumbnail was brighter than mine and because I had not reprocessed the file [other than sharpening] when I cropped it, I brightened it, etc.
Bruce