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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 04:12:48 am

Title: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 04:12:48 am
San Francisco -- 50mm Hassy
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 04:16:58 am
Started here ...
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: louoates on December 24, 2013, 09:15:04 am
The old "that depends" answer. In fact, this topic and these examples aren't about cropping at all -- but about composition. Your longer shot is very conventional, well framed, and conveys a certain building. I can see it hanging on the architect's office wall. The closeup is far different and much more intriguing in that it conveys the stark reality of all modern buildings. The closeup features unexpected rough texture and evidence of brute strength as well as a pleasing arrangement of elements, especially the negative triangular space in the center. I can see it hanging on anyone's wall who appreciates fine contemporary images. Well done.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: amolitor on December 24, 2013, 09:47:38 am
I don't see why you'd want to crop it at all, it feels just right to me.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: RSL on December 24, 2013, 09:48:53 am
Nowhere.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: Bruce Cox on December 24, 2013, 11:54:10 am
Looks like it is standing up to the earth quake pretty well as is.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 12:28:18 pm
especially the negative triangular space in the center.

That was the master or the missing link for me -- But maybe that stark triangle = ties everything to all the geometry ??
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 24, 2013, 02:47:51 pm
Nowhere.
+1.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 03:42:58 pm
Just turned a little bit to the right  -- only took 4 images/negatives that day @ this spot  .........
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 24, 2013, 05:06:11 pm
You've got a much higher success rate than most of the rest of us have.
Title: Re: Where do you crop something like this ??
Post by: cjogo on December 24, 2013, 08:52:55 pm
I think its the tripod /non zoom / only 12 exposure thing ...  really makes you work.  It was also approached as work - not just a fun art :-)