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[limr32 1]

Love the colors, all the shapes, the magazine peeking out, that great window frame...

I kind of want the bottom cropped (up until just below the shadow of the lowest mailbox on the left of the frame) so there's a little less context. I don't know why. It feels like it's a commentary on randomness, and too much context imposes a sort of order or reason to it, which takes away from that commentary. Just 2 cents from a woman who should probably have been in bed an hour ago

 

[xenskhe]

Excellent

 

[sleist]

Love the colors, all the shapes, the magazine peeking out, that great window frame...

I kind of want the bottom cropped (up until just below the shadow of the lowest mailbox on the left of the frame) so there's a little less context. I don't know why. It feels like it's a commentary on randomness, and too much context imposes a sort of order or reason to it, which takes away from that commentary. Just 2 cents from a woman who should probably have been in bed an hour ago

Totally get what you mean. The crop bugged me too, but I was hoping to avoid an unconstrained crop factor and I think it lead me down a dark alley. Here's a crop I like a bit better. Still a work in progress - thanks for the comment.

 

[Tim Tucker]

Much prefer the second.

 

[Derrel]

Both work. The second one's addition of the 3B building identification and the full window with reflection both change the feeling conveyed by quite a large degree; although it is a small thing in some ways, the window and its reflection of the telephone or power wires and the blue sky adds a huge amount of extra dimension...it adds literally visual evidence of another depth plane, so that really is a major added element in terms of how we decode the photo. The first image shows a collection of mailboxes and some bushes that appear to have been heavily pruned for their over-wintering, and here it is today, the first day of spring. I really like that climbing tendril in the upper right corner of the second crop!

 

[dennybeall]

Prefer the first one. The second with the building ID makes it more of a documentation photo instead of photo art for me.

 

[limr32 1]

Both work. The second one's addition of the 3B building identification and the full window with reflection both change the feeling conveyed by quite a large degree; although it is a small thing in some ways, the window and its reflection of the telephone or power wires and the blue sky adds a huge amount of extra dimension...it adds literally visual evidence of another depth plane, so that really is a major added element in terms of how we decode the photo. The first image shows a collection of mailboxes and some bushes that appear to have been heavily pruned for their over-wintering, and here it is today, the first day of spring. I really like that climbing tendril in the upper right corner of the second crop!

I agree that they both work in different ways. Derrel explained the second version very well, imho. What I envisioned to highlight the idea of randomness/shapes/colors with as little context as possible is a combination of the first crop (only the bottom half of the red window) and the second crop (just the tops of the bushes with no door jam on the left.) Again, it's not like I think the other two don't work, but that the possible third crop just becomes a different picture.

I find this picture fascinating for this very reason: that it can become so many different things just by what you do or don't include in the frame.

 

[Derrel]

Prefer the first one. The second with the building ID makes it more of a documentation photo instead of photo art for me.

I look at this as I would chocolate chip cookies, one batch made with fine, Oregon-grown walnut chunks, the second with fine, Oregon-grown filbert chunks added to the dough and then expertly baked (filberts, AKA 'hazelnuts').

 

[sleist]

The struggle is real.

Nice to have a shot worthy of the thought process I guess. These are crops of a wider portrait and landscape views that captured more of the facade. I guess I knew I was going to need room to play.

Thanks for the comments and interesting perspectives.
Again - a work in progress.

 

[sleist]

One think I DO know - B&W looks like sh1t.

;-)