Crab - past tense

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Contax rts, 28-70 zoom at macro end, Ektachrome 100. Bleached white shell caught my eye.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), June 09, 2000

Answers

Mike,

I like it. I really like it. Very simple, good light. I am curious about how the original was framed (this is closer to a square format, but is was taken on a 35mm). Once again, I like it, I really like it.

Kevin Ferris

-- Kevin Ferris (KFerris575@aol.com), June 09, 2000.


A classy shot! The green serves as a somewhat different and pleasant addition to the normal crab shell on sand image. Good work!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), June 10, 2000.

This is very good and I like it. I would however have liked to see the uncropped version as now that you have cropped it it's hard to look at the photo from a stock photo perspective. While this would make a lovely art print it no longer has stock appeal. There almost needs to be a bit of space around the crab. Say for instance this was going on a front colver there isn't enough room around the image for text now. As a print image this is great as a stock image I would love to see the uncropped version

-- Keith Anderson (andos@pacific.net.au), June 10, 2000.

Very, very nice composition. Could use a scosh more depth-if-field, as the leaf in the lower left is distractingly soft. Nice to see a fellow Contaxian posting his stuff!

-Matt

-- Matt Gabriel (mgabriel@crosswinds.net), June 11, 2000.


Here's the pix before cropping: http://www.webgreen.com/critique/crabbefore.jpg

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), June 11, 2000.


Now that I like. The uncropped version while not a, as you could say, print shot it has space. You were smart to stick the crab on the right with space above and below it. If you cut the picin halfvertical then the pic becomes a front page picture. Why? it has space above and below the crab for text. If you look at the hole picture now you have a book wrap around shot. The crab on the front cover and the leaves wrapping around the book. I like the shot and it has so many uses when not cropped. That's why I asked to see the cropped version.

-- Keith Anderson (andos@pacific.net.au), June 11, 2000.

I'm with Keith - the uncropped (for me) is a much strong, much more pleasing image. Very well seen. Like it a lot.

-- Scott (bliorg@yahoo.com), June 13, 2000.

Really elegant image.

-- Billy Gorum (Herphoto@aol.com), June 13, 2000.

I really like this image a lot. I also enjoyed seeing the uncropped version and prefer it. I'm glad you posted the crop though, because it gives a better sense of the texture and detail on the 'real thing'. I prefer the uncropped because I enjoy the pattern, and the shell to the right becomes a discovery for me as it catches my eye in the way in must have caught yours on the beach. I think more excellent shots could be great shots by allowing the subject more space -- letting it draw its own attention. I find myself taking too many initial shots as tight as your crop... and alas there's no turning back. Thanks for sharing thin one; I've enjoyed almost all of your pics in the archive and this one doesn't disappoint the expectations they'd built up.

-- Jason Hoblit (hoblit@oz.net), June 14, 2000.

Nice image Mike. I like the cropped version. It puts focus on the grains of sand as a texture and I like the balance of your cropped version. It is more simple in the cropped version which speaks of the crab past tense.

-- Micheal F. Kelly (radiant@gci.net), June 14, 2000.


Great grapics!

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), June 15, 2000.

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