First crop - to focus in on the tree filled hillside and the shapes of the interlocking valley and distant peak. Not much sky interest, so tried to minimise this by making it less evident. Also, the landscape - almost panoramic crop - is trying to emphasise the interlocking valley sides.
Second crop - closer again, trying to make the tree hillside fill the foreground by bisecting with the bottom left of the image frame. By going in closer, again the sky is de-emphasised and the little hillfort becomes more of a feature.
I welcome your views on each image and the relative merits of each crop (or not).
Ivan
4 comments:
Hi
Firstly the image. The colour is somewhat off but I will ignore that given it is from a scanned slide. I like the forested area in the fore since it provides scale and puts the mountains into their place. Not sure about the brown thing sticking up because I cannot really see what that is, but it does add interest to the otherwise all mono-green forest. I would have liked to have seen more to the left because the slope with the snow on it sort of teases the eye into asking what lies beyond. So a panoramic view would have worked well here, even though not possible at the time.
First crop. Don't like it. Removing the tops of the mountains doesn't feel right to me and it doesn't divert my eye to the valleys. So, not a favourite.
Second crop. This works much better. There is a greater interest in the valleys beyond with enough detail to please the eye. There is more detail in the foreground and I can now see enough detail in the brown thing to have an idea what it is.
Damian
Didn't say it was from a scanned slide - I said it was a crop of the original image. The original image was digital also. What's off about the colour - we can't really say too much about this, as we all have different monitor settings.
Both have tops of mountains cropped off, so interesting that the more severe crop you liked when the less severe crop you didn't, but it sounds like that is because the latter is kind of "fully committed" to the crop, and works better because there are less other distractions? Have I summarised this right?
Ivan
The colour in the background feels a little washed out but that might be haze. It does, however, create an odd contrast with the deep dark green of the trees. That haziness, however, does give a sense of distance and a sense of scale to the huge mountain.
The trees feel a tad dark to me, but only ever so slightly.
There is a blue cast in the background. Was the photo taken late in the day?
With regards to the crop, I think you are right. The tighter crop removes the area to the left which I find distracting.
D
Yes, late in the day, with little/no warm light.
Ivan
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