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6 comments:
Organized stuff! Lurve! Esp the mangoes. :)
A comment! Yay! I went last Saturday to the big weekly swap meet and farmer's market that's next to the big railyard. Got stuff. Then at lunchtime I got a book for two bucks.
Organized stuff? You mean, you think about what you're doing when you take pictures? Hmm.
They all seem to have a vanishing point, except the one with the metal dog bones.
About the train pics, and I know it's hard not to do, but I remember an art class in 7th grade and one of the handful of cardinal rules of composition was to never have a diagonal cut off a corner of your picture. Depending on how important you think that rule is, it can ruin lots of potential photo ops.
Where in which picture? I composed them differently when taking them. I cropped the heck out of most of them for this post, including the two train pics, mostly to lose a lot of dead air space.
I struggled with cutting off so much of the right hand edge on the bottom one, maybe overdid it.
On the top one should the vanishing point not be out of frame? It wasn't originally.
Good point about the dog bones, in terms of making a tighter group. Oh well.
I don't organize as I go, but follow fancy, which can then be organized later. That's where the cropping comes in. Sometimes I want to write a story for each one too, but, yeah, right.
I thought I replied to you. Maybe I did and forgot to publish the comment. I was in fact referring to the top picture. Hard to say what the "perfect" crop would be. It's a picture, so you do what you think looks good. The no-diagonal rule is one that for some reason I've always remembered. So, not to criticize, I do believe it helps sometimes, but like I said, sometimes a picture is bad and there's nothing you can do about it. If you leave a diagonal in even though you know it's against the rule, then you must have a reason for it, and so then it's OK.
:)
I struggle to compose pictures that don't have extraneous crap on the sides and background. simplicity. Or at least relevance within the picture. That's my latest thing.
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