Alysa -Florida 1997

Question: A magazine once ask to use this photo but they wanted to crop on the left. I refused. The photo was not published. Maybe I was wrong?

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They were right.

Very abstract and graphic image, and an unusual approach to nudes. Therre is a story here, and the image does not indulge in the beauty of the lines the way nudes usually do.

You were right not TO let them crop IF you did not want it cropped...unless you struggled as I to make the rent! In my opinion it would not hurt this fine image of yours to crop a LITTLE bit...on the left. The woman looks through the frame...in my opinion it would make the image even stronger...Don't worry about decisions from a decade ago...continue with your fine art...today. Juan

Meir, I would have cropped without being asked because it makes this image a lot stronger. You have to crop it somehow anyway in order to correct that tilted horizon. It's a very suggestive image btw and I like it

Not to crop. Definitely. Very effective shot.

 

Mauro

the portion on the left, about 1 fifth of the photo, balances it. I also don't think that the horizon should be straightened: there is a vanishing point on the right which allows the horizon to be tilted.

A lot of comments. Thanks. Over 11 years and some of the time hanging on my wall I never noticed the horizon was tilted. I must have done this many times on other photos -tilted whatever. And I have never tilted a print in the dark room. Attaching cropped and tilted version.

I met her only that one time. She lived in Altanta. I mailed her a print but never heard from her. I took one other shot which was full figured frontal. There is shadow in the eye sockets; needed fill flash. Never used the shot.

 

 

Meir,

It is good to have people like you here, who really want his/her photos to be criticised and who do not take the -requested- criticisms as attacks to his/her personality. I do not have much to add to the discussion other than that I liked your photo (especially the edited one).