Thanks for your candor, and your thoughtful comments.
If everyone liked the same stuff, it wouldn't be a very interesting world, would it? Besides, I know you didn't say you didn't like it, just that it didn't work for you. I know what you mean. Sometimes it's hard to articulate something emotional, or how something makes us feel.
I would have preferred the crop to be not so tight, too. But, I didn't have much space below the bike to work with. On the neg, the bike is dead centre, which I didn't like, so I took out dead space on the right to make it more pleasing to my eye, but to me it's still not perfect.
Here's the full frame:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2241649
If you want to take a shot at cropping it, go ahead. Same thing for everyone else. Sort of a mini-WOW. I'd be interested to see what other people come up with. I don't think I'm very good at it, myself - I do try to crop in the viewfinder, and I think I'm not bad at that, but if I'm forced to do it after the fact, I always have misgivings.
Thanks again for your comments, Boris. I'm always very interested to hear what you say.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PAW #7 - Courier Bph Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:00:38 +0200
Frank,
As usual, I am going to be honest here...
The elements are here. The car, the motion blur, the tones... But it does not click together in my head/eye/mind/etc...
May be it is too tight or may be the pattern on the bottom left contradicts the overall direction of motion... I don't know. I cannot put my finger at something that does not work for me...
Sorry, if I don't make much sense here...
Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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