Back story: These were the Lipizzan Stallions when they visited Cape Cod, MA in or about the summer of 1990. Camera: Nikon FM2N. Lens was probably a 50mm f1.8. Film most likely Tri-X, later flat bed scanned.
The original was just a ho-hum opportunistic grab. I have a lady imposing herself on the right of the frame. I have no idea what that foggy intrusion is on the lower left. It doesn't appear on any other negatives. Could be light leakage during the scan:
My first thought was this would look better as a square format. I'm also fighting a lot of "busy-ness" in the upper right, and a protruding equine proboscis on the lower left (Crop 1):
Here is an effort to reduce some of the distracting effects above. I still need to add more blur to the upper right. (Crop 2):
I'm sort of partial to this square format version, though it does need the focal point of the image to pop more from the other distractions (Crop 3):
Finally, a 4x6 format rendering (Crop 4):
I'm not a professional photographer, don't play one on TV so feel free to jump in with both feet and critique away!
The original was just a ho-hum opportunistic grab. I have a lady imposing herself on the right of the frame. I have no idea what that foggy intrusion is on the lower left. It doesn't appear on any other negatives. Could be light leakage during the scan:
My first thought was this would look better as a square format. I'm also fighting a lot of "busy-ness" in the upper right, and a protruding equine proboscis on the lower left (Crop 1):
Here is an effort to reduce some of the distracting effects above. I still need to add more blur to the upper right. (Crop 2):
I'm sort of partial to this square format version, though it does need the focal point of the image to pop more from the other distractions (Crop 3):
Finally, a 4x6 format rendering (Crop 4):
I'm not a professional photographer, don't play one on TV so feel free to jump in with both feet and critique away!
