Thanks, Larry. This shot was part of an experiment for me in trying to frame more loosely and include more ambient detail. Trouble for me here is that the ambient contains little interesting detail. The stone/brick walls are bare, and the floor is nice but featureless. So I ended up cropping into the frame a bit in the end. The fire is supposed to balance against the girl and give your eyes something else to wander over. I decided to make the circle of her petticoat symmetrically contained by the frame and she's leaning back so her upper body ends up to the left and places the fire to the right. I thought that made a nice inverted triangle.
Sigh. Who knows? Composition is a tough language to learn. Sometimes I think I should go to night school art classes, but I'm a complete klutz with paint brushes, so I think I'd get tossed out. I might be okay with pastels or chalk though. Hmmm ... On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I love the lighting, and the subject is gorgeous. Having her so centered in > the frame doesn't feel right to me. At the very least I'd crop the right > and bottom tighter so she is looking more into rather than out of the frame. > Alternatively, I'd try cropping tight to the dress and over her head as > well. While she is excellent, the fire is merely nice and I think cropping > in as tight as you can would dilute less of the excellent with just nice. > > > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Inspired by Marc LaGrange, and maybe a bit cheesy, but what the heck. >> >> This one's in colour, and is solidly NSFW because boobs. >> >> http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/G0000gHoq5gQcQhY/I0000VODDPeI99fo >> >> 645z, dfa645 55mm/2.8, f/4, 1/15th sec, 800 ISO; handheld. >> 5' gridded stripbox, camera right. >> >> Dane Halo, model, makeup, hair. >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
