Sorry I am not going to be much help here - when downloading both files fill
almost two full screens on my monitor so it is difficult to really make a
judgement.
BUT - what I want to know is - what camera, lens, film and settings did you
use?
Great photo :) Now confess! Did you - or did you not - use an auto focus
point&shoot on AE??!!
Cheers!
Lee
----Original Message Follows----
From: siddiq <iddibhai@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] composition: which of the three is stronger?
I found a PictureCD with some of my shots while looking for some stuff and
decided to play around with two of 'em.
which of them is stronger compositionally do you think? all opinions are
welcome of course, including crops other than indicated. I've compressed
them so you can download quicker, but they are full 1024*
1536 pixel scans with only slight curves adjusted.
Option 1:
http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/siddiq/14web.jpg
what i like is the smooth focus transition (prime focus on fellow with eyes
open), also entire "crew" is visible along with large portion of choir
(doing the star spangled banner, btw) what i DONT like,
can't see the flag except a tiny bit reflected in the helmet.
Option 2:
http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/siddiq/13web.jpg
Two crops indicated: black border for standard aspect ratio, black+gray for
a squar-ish crop.
what i like about the black crop: the aspect ratio leaves space on the right
side of frame for viewer's eye, even tho there's nothing there. the flag is
much more viewable in all helmets. square crop is
another option (black + gray border outlined)... can't use fullframe, fuzz
in the bottom right :( and half the JROTC's faces are hidden. also appears
to be sharper of the two
sorry i couldn't fit an SUV in the picture, but there is a gun! whoowheee
<g>
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