Stacy at Visual Venturing hosts After Before Friday. This week Loré Dombaj at Snow’s Fissures and Fractures graciously agreed to stand in while Stacy takes a break.
This is my original image. I liked the shadows and lines but beyond that I found it uninteresting. There is no point of interest.
I decided to give the girl on the right a greater role. In cropping I sacrificed some of the lines of the shelter in order to get in close enough to give the girl some prominence. I brought up detail in the foreground and blurred it in the background, and changed the opacity in the upper right to give a backdrop to the girl.
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A crop is such a simple measure, but can be, oh, so powerful, as you’ve demonstrated with your image. I agree with Katie – now it looks as if the people at the bus stop are watching her 🙂
Thanks for submitting to Loré for this week. I appreciated it, as I know she did as well!
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Really great editing job, you gave your image a new concept.
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Magic of the crop 🙂
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I suppose if I were sitting there, I’d be staring at the girl, too. Your crop works perfectly!
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😀 thanks, Emilio.
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I like the editing! Well done, Lynne 🙂
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Thank you, Amy. 🙂
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I agree with Katie. The crop really made the story stand out.
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It looks like the people at the bus stop are looking at her now! Nice job with the editing.
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Thank you for that comment, Katie, as it is what I was aiming for. 🙂
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