Growing in Pukekohe...tighter crop by awatea

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23-OCT-2007

As suggested by "Nick Powell", I have cropped some of the sky in this shot, for a more dramatic look....thanks Nick, I do like this tighter crop.

Canon EOS 30D
1/80s f/8.0 at 59.0mm iso100 full exif

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All photos copyright to Dawn McKenzie-Wykes

JW		09-Jan-2010 11:06
I disagree with Ralph. The sky gives it all the context you need. Perfect verticals and horizontals rarely exist in nature - this is obviously a slope. The image of man's lines having to adapt to nature's slope creates more interest than perfect symmetry IMHO!

RALPH ELDRIDGE		26-Dec-2007 19:11
You can never be to tight. Nick's suggestions are on the mark. I would go so far as to say that you could crop this into a vertical image. Of the 11 furrows touching the bottom, keep only the 7 left-most. Regardless of our suggestions on cropping, your original suffers from the apparent tilt. I realize that the ground may be tilted. However, in the absence of some fairly large object that establishes the vertical and/or horizontal axis, the image comes across to me as "tilted camera". Were this my image, I would spend time with it. Maybe it's even a scene to re-shoot sometime. I really like the feel and potential of it.

dane		20-Dec-2007 16:31
I like this version better, too.

Nick Powell		20-Dec-2007 12:00
I like both versions, but prefer the tighter crop. Maybe you could even remove the sky completely to give the lines an abstract look?

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