Crop or no Crop...

[necktru]

Hi, this is a photo of my wife during my honeymoon, I loved the moment captured, no pose, I was in the pool with the camera. The question is, I must to crop the photo? or keep original frame? the person is not at the center, either is not ubicated in a third rul space.

Personally the wall in the right side is bad, but there is no way to clone out.

I think, B&W photos are better for memorable moments, may be because when I see my parents pict(50's,60's,70's), all of them are in B&W, it's my personal apreciation, but the color version looks good too.

I'm thinking to print this photo in a 13x18 cm frame in a photo lab, to decorate my apartment. But I want to know your apreciation of this picture.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/maitin/577840212/

[clockdoc]

Hi Martin. I agree with your comments on B&W shots as well. You are a brave man to have your camera in the pool. 8-) I think with some aggressive cropping you can eliminate most of the objectionable background and have a nice photo of your wife in return. Too bad you didn't use a little flash fill or spot metering since she was positioned in front of the bright waterfall. That brightness 'tricked' your meter into underexposing the overall scene leaving the subject a bit on the dark side. Perhaps you can lighten her a bit in post processing. I am sure you will cherish whatever crop you decide on.

[millerdj]

I think that some cropping could help out. The steps in the upper left corner drew my eye away from the great facial expression and the movement of the water.

[jenjen]

I'd say crop it such that there's more image on the left of her face. I think it usually looks better when the subject is looking into the larger space of the image rather than out of it. If that makes any sense.

[stevesutt89]

I agree with the others that cropping out the left hand site would be better. As for the wall/step on the right, i don't mind it, to me it leads the eye to your wife. That said though, if you could soften/blur it (convincingly) a little so it is slightly less demanding of the eye, this may help........maybe........possible........i think

EDIT: oopse hang on, i just reread the other posts here, and it doesn;t seem that anyone is advocating cropping the left side off, in which case i revise my post to say that i don't find the wall on the right particularly offensive as i think it draws your eye towards your wife's face. do what you will with that information