Comments on: Understanding the Color of Light/Part II. Which Light Do You Like Best? And a funny micro-adjusting story … https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/25/understanding-the-color-of-lightpart-ii-which-light-do-you-like-best-and-a-funny-micro-adjusting-story/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Jack D Waller https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/25/understanding-the-color-of-lightpart-ii-which-light-do-you-like-best-and-a-funny-micro-adjusting-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1752702 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:30:44 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=50904#comment-1752702 Too tight all around was actually what I was thinking rather than “too tight to the right” but it was the right that stood out. I guess that aspect is just a personal preference relating to how much a person wants to maximize the detail of the subject. I started out a few years ago with tighter cropping and now have relaxed that.

Jack

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/25/understanding-the-color-of-lightpart-ii-which-light-do-you-like-best-and-a-funny-micro-adjusting-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1752675 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:36:53 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=50904#comment-1752675 Though both are fine images where I come from, I’m with David Policansky and John Mack in preferring image #2. For the image design, the quality of the light, the raised wing pose, the exposed tail, and the feather in the bill.

I do not feel that Image #1 is cropped too tightly from the right; the bird is effectively facing to our left. The distance from the left frame-edge to the bird is about three times greater than the distance from the right frame-edge to the bird. I don’t think that centering the bird would have improved things a whole lot. That said, it would not have been a big deal to add canvas on three sides, left, right and above. More room all around would not have hurt.

Thanks to all who commented.

with love, artie

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