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Response to Look Up (Response #79)

Uploaded 572 Days Ago by memorymotel - 13 comments

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George said 572 days ago:

Cool shot. I like it. I think I'd prefer it even more if the people/umbrella at the bottom right were cropped out.

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

Ohh..
I like that little detail. This image is a scan from film taken at 17mm.
Thanks for the comment.

kadenajack said 572 days ago:

Skating on the edge of relevance here. Is this supposed to be a picture about the woman in the bikini or is it a picture about the umbrella? The other umbrella and people in the lower right could be cropped entirely.

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

It's whatever you want it to be. The image was of the umbrella and my dear friend walked in as I took the snap. This is not and was not intended to be an image of a "women in a bikini".

And, I don't crop any of my film shots.

groen65 said 572 days ago:

Striking! I'm not sure whether the people in the bottom corner are distracting and it would have been a stronger image without them. Luckily the black&white parasol is a real eye-catcher.

agi said 572 days ago:

Interesting take on the theme. The viewer is almost transplanted on a beach somewhere.

George said 572 days ago:

Matt (memorymotel), I feel like I'm lying on a beach towel with maybe one eye kinda half open looking up at the umbrella and the woman passing by. So, effectively the image becomes a relationship between me, the umbrella and the woman, and therefore the people in the bottom right, who keep "yanking" my eye away, are a distracting element.

By the way, why don't you crop any of your film shots? Also, do you crop digital shots? Just curious :-)

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

I don't crop my film shots because I tend to spend more time framing them than the digital counterparts. I think this is true for most that shoot both film and digital.

With digital it's so darn easy to review the image and re-shoot if it's not the way you like it. With film you have one shot at getting the image right so I just like to leave the image in its original form.

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

I don't crop my film shots because I tend to spend more time framing them than the digital counterparts. I think this is true for most that shoot both film and digital.

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

I don't crop my film shots because I tend to spend more time framing them than the digital counterparts. I think this is true for most that shoot both film and digital.

memorymotel said 572 days ago:

*****Sorry for the duplicate comments. Not sure how it happened....and...I have no idea how to remove the 2 duplicate comments.

Any suggestions?

gorin-images said 572 days ago:

Looking up from your blanket at the beach?

Michael said 572 days ago:

Great exposure and composition. I like this one very much!

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