Timeline for How to make travel photography captivating, intriguing, thrilling?
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| Jan 14, 2011 at 4:48 | comment | added | kacalapy | @mattdm great tips. thanks for coming back to re-comment and taking us all to school. I never consciously thought about your very valid point that cropping in tight is cropping out story points. I kind of just do what looks good to me with each image, but from now I will have a new few things to consider when editing. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 4:41 | comment | added | mattdm | To add to this: consider how much the palm tree and rough structure in the background add to your first example. And what's that around her mouth? Some chocolate ice cream? A tropical fruit treat of some sort? And who is she looking at to the upper left? Suddenly, there's a story here — something that would be missing if you had wiped her mouth and zoomed even tighter (or defocused the background to an indistinguishable blur). | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 3:11 | comment | added | mattdm | This is an easy way to make a focused composition. You're removing everything but your clear subject from the image, and that makes the subject very strong. That can work very well, but there's also something nice about having context. An image with more in it — with edges, with what may turn out to be a secondary subject, or a primary subject that isn't the first thing you see after all — can be strong as well, in a different way. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 2:30 | comment | added | kacalapy | yup. so much so that I noticed shots taken with my kit lens that is 18 - 105mm zoom that most of my shots are at or near 105mm. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 2:27 | comment | added | jlpp | Hmm.. zooming and cropping. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 2:25 | history | answered | kacalapy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |