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Healing by Craig Martin Shot of a hand massage caught at a street festival | |
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Daria wrote 2 months ago I like this version much more then the previous one.. glad to see it published, it's a great shot with lots of room for interpretation :) | ||
King Douglas wrote 2 months ago Craig, this is an excellent photo and I understand your title and your take on this--it works for me--but I have a powerful urge to write, "Pull my finger." I don't read other comments before writing, so I don't know if anyone else has been so rude. I saw this in critique. This looks pretty much as I remember it...what did you modify? Good work here. I think it should have been published in the original version. | ||
Craig Martin replied 2 months ago Thanks for the comment King (and I did see its potential to ellicit the age-old remark by the way ;-) ). In terms of what I modified, it was primarily composition. If you compare the shots, you will see that this one is actually a slightly different shot. It allowed me to include more of the left-most hand in the frame, in response to the fair comment that I had cut off that hand before the wrist, in an abrupt way. I also rotated it a bit, so that I got the arms more at a diagonal from the corners. Finally, I zommed out slightly so they didn't quite fill the frame as much. Other than that the editing was the same - the second one suffers slightly from being a little less sharp, with a little less empahsis in the texture in the black hands, but on balance I think it was good trade-off. | ||
Thomas Ljungberg wrote 2 months ago I like the way you improved the image Craig. The flow and composition of the picture is much more in balance now. /Thomas | ||
Craig Martin replied 2 months ago Thanks Thomas. I am glad you think so - I feel it was worth re-working, and I learned a lot from the critique and the process of thinking about how to improve it. | ||
Scott Crouse wrote 2 months ago Congrats Craig, I like the original version as well but the reworked is definitely better. | ||
Craig Martin replied 2 months ago Thanks Tracy. Just goes to show that re-submission can work, and that that going back to the drawing board can make the marginal difference. Cheers. | ||
Craig Martin replied 2 months ago Thanks Martin - the composition re-work was particularly in response to your comments, so they seem to have been spot on. Thanks again for those. |