Comments on: Photo Editing 101

By: Michelle Wong

Michelle Wong — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:41:33 +0000

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By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:02:59 +0000

I would say #4 for several reasons. First is because of the expressions on the two girls in the forground. They appear to be working well together and have very different expressions.
The second is that there are many lines that lead to the package the two forground girls are working on. One has a bright arm leading to the package while the second girl is facing us and directly at the package.
Third is the adult and two girls in the background are all in line which again leads to the package.

So it has emotion from the expressions of the girls and leading lines that all lead to a common point.

Bill

By: Michael Fischer

Michael Fischer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:42:48 +0000

Number #4 and here’s why. The little girl’s elbow and arm on the right side lead you into the photo. The little girl standing next to her brings you farther into the image. Then adult on the left side is wearing a dark color which her hand stands out in the foreground.Her hand is pointing in. You have a natural line between both “end” persons, you have faces and you have good expression. Top it off with people actively doing something. None of the other shots have what #4 has.

After typing all of this, THEN I notice David has already posted the answer. Darn good thing it was #4.

By: Greg Riegler

Greg Riegler — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:08:13 +0000

Edit #5 would be my pick. The arm coming in, seems to imply ‘a helping hand’ where the kids seem to be doing the most work. I think it could be the strongest composed as well. Just my $0.02.

By: Ian Paterson

Ian Paterson — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:22:42 +0000

Without looking at the rest of the comments, my thought process went like this:

1 out (The woman at the end of the table is giving a speech? That’s not the story)

2 out (Focus of the image seems to be the blown out window, eyes go to that before hitting the kids or presents)

3 out (Still a little to busy, too many competing elements)

4 out (Is the story parents helping kids with a task? No, but the woman on the left could be cropped out and this would be the runner up)

5 selected (focus is on the kids, selecting toys. Is that the story? Yes? Woo! Ding ding ding) Arm on the left doesn’t bother me too much, and I prefer the kids on the right to be actively reaching for the gifts.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:03:09 +0000

One of the things I do to pick a photo from my assignments is to gather them together (as you have here) and see which one my eye goes to first.

Using this basis, I’d chose # 5, because of the hands reaching into the table. I also liked #4, because it’s also a closer photo than the first three.

So, I’d look at #5 first, and if there was some reason (focus in wrong spot, bad expression on one of the faces are two examples) that I couldn’t use it, I’d go for # 4.

One of the things I’ve found, though, is that page editors will often pick a photo because they need either a horizontal or vertical shot to work best on a page. (Sometimes they’ll say that, most times they won’t.)

PS: I wrote this before reading any of the comments, so if it duplicates others, I’m sorry.

By: sixteenfeet

sixteenfeet — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:43:37 +0000

The Winner Is . . . #4. The fourth photo is the one most of you identified and that was the photo I offered from this assignment. This was a standalone assignment, meaning it was not going with a story, so I only submitted one photo. The final crop was the one most of you suggested with the hand and blue blouse on the right eliminated. So BRAVO. You have chosen wisely!

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:41:17 +0000

EdN: pull down the little menu widget and tell the thing not to do that in future. Works in firefox.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:21:17 +0000

well, i find 1 to be the most visually interesting, but i think that #4 does the best job of telling the story in the most direct way; when i looked at it my first thought was “oh, kids putting stuff into boxes.”

By: Corey Ralston

Corey Ralston — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:25:17 +0000

Shot Number 4 all the way!