Sometimes you get lucky. The camera wasn’t level, which is an all-too common problem of mine. It seems no matter how I try to remember to address that basic issue in the field, I end up with at least a few shots from every outing where I forgot to pay attention. This was one of them.
Fixing the imbalance is easy enough, but you end up losing part of the picture. The resulting crop presented me with a choice of losing either the overpass, or the feet. Until I remembered I can change the aspect ratio from the original, and once I altered that from 3×2 to square, not only did I fix the problem, allowing me to retain both the feet and the overpass, but the picture was remarkably better composed.
Chris Nitz
18 Jan 2013I think this just might be my new favorite Grey Man image. It invokes a lot of thinking and contemplation with a touch of old world feel. Loving it!
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Mark Neal
18 Jan 2013Incredible image, Mark. You nailed the square format. Great!
LensScaper
21 Jan 2013Classic Grey Man. I think we can get too hung up on image shape/ratio. A lot of good images are square or close to that. Nothing wrong with that at all. Loads of greeting cards are square – it’s a very common commercial shape. This is a great composition.
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Toad Hollow Photography
22 Jan 2013Nary a doubt, Mark, this series continues to delight and entertain. Some of your finest work to-date, my friend.
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