Hi all,
This shot was actually taken almost a year ago, but I just now got to work on it. I put my car for an annual treatment at the garage, and used the time to walk along the Haifa promenade. The location in the photo is used every week for folk dancing, but on a weekday in the morning it was pretty deserted. I used a low angle to minimize the circle shaped bricks and try to show them as lines, along the lines of the building on the other side, when this guy wearing more stripes came by. Perfect blend to my photo...
Comments & critique welcome!
Hi all,
Do you think the cropped version is better?
Oren
My problem with this is not the crop, but the focus. If the subject is the patterns in the tiles, then the focus should be on the ground and not on the man walking across them. In fact, I would prefer if he weren't there at all.
I can see you wanted to get low to get more foreground in the shot, but I would have suggested standing tall or even getting on something that would allow a more top-down angle. That would allow us to see the patterns better as well as getting more of the foreground and background in focus without having to use a super small aperture.
Due to the foreshortening effect of the angle, the circular patterns are ovalized and this might make a horizontal crop a better option than the vertical crop you've used here.
Thanks for your feedback, but you missed my point...
By NOT showing the complete circles, and going vertical, they are 'almost' linear, and the man's shirt is also striped, completing the scene... The focus is not the tiles, it's stripes all over...