Photo of my son at the pool

-- Gerry Widen (gwiden@alliancepartners.org), December 19, 2001

Answers

Pretty strange. Aren't wide-angles cool? This is one of those "workable" images, e.g. you can experiment with different croppings and arrangements, maybe even turning the photo 45 degrees to the left or right yet maintaining an abstract feel. I try to minimize giving cropping suggestions, but I'll bet this would work well if you cropped out all the surroundings and included only his head, torso, and arms.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), December 19, 2001.

what made you present it upside down? really strange perspective but works well.

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), December 19, 2001.

Tony and Nigel thanks for the comments. Actually it was shot the way I presented it. I was leaning over his head from the top, but it does look more normal if you flip it. Also for a 35mm lens which I consider almost normal there is a lot of perspective, I guess because I was pretty close to my sons head

-- Gerry Widen (gwiden@alliancepartners.org), December 20, 2001.

hehe! I went thru the mental gymnastics to work out if you could have taken it like that.. and decided no, must have flipped it! buzzzzzz... I was wrong!

What's he think of the shot?

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), December 20, 2001.

Nigel, sounds like you have a lot of free time. Actually my son in the worst way didn't feel like being photographed and kept turning his head and contorting his body. So I leaned over him (he was fairly low to the ground) and took the shot. Now he loves it. It happens to be a rated picture on photo.net and he thinks it is cool to be displayed on my page there.

-- Gerry Widen (gwiden@alliancepartners.org), December 20, 2001.

Very cool photo. I wish his arm curved more rather than just going straight up out the top of the photo--it tries to take my eyes with it.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), December 25, 2001.