Russ,
I agree with your assesment but I feel like #2 has a potential if it could be corrected. Maybe in color or is there something that could be done to relieve the brightness. I would not want to crop it to much to get rid of the white because it would remove some of the interesting lines. Can it be improved?
Jeremy,
Good Eye
Tom
Tom, Jeremy's a good photographer so I'm reluctant to second-guess him. If I were there I might try stepping to the left to see if an angled shot might preserve the beauty of the door and cut out the blank sky on the left, but I don't know what else is to the right and I don't know what obstacles are on the left. The obvious crop is this:
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But that destroys the proportions of the picture, though it looks sort of like a door that Fox Talbot shot in the middle nineteenth century using his paper negative process.
There used to be a beautiful door like this in St. Augustine, Florida. Because of the way its surroundings shaded the light it was very difficult to get a picture of it that could do it justice. This is the best I ever was able to do, and I'm still not satisfied with it:
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Unfortunately I won't be able to try again. The last hurricane that hit St. Augustine trashed the door, and it's gone now.