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Eric
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Ok your first 2024 assignment… How would you crop this image to portray the activity to best advantage? [No prizes will be awarded. Your reward will be the warm glow that you improved a photo]   Click here to comment on this image. |
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chrisbet
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I would come in close to the guy pouring and the crucible and warm up the colour a little - everything else is irrelevant -  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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That’s too tight a crop for me. For environmental portraits I want to show more of the paraphernalia that the person works with. I think loosing the windows and tools reduces some of the distraction but leaving some of the empty moulds waiting to be cast adds more dimension to the story. What do you think?  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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I suppose ‘loosing’ some of the illuminated items on the bench behind and turning the image into a portrait reduces some of the distraction whilst keeping the relationship between the people and their working environment. Click here to comment on this image. But I still feel even this tighter cropping slightly diminishes the size of their daily task. What do we think? |
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Graham Whistler
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The wider crop is better at showing more. Smelting Gold Mazoe Mine Rhodesia about 1968. Nice if a bit more of this came all of our ways for 2024!!!  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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That looks impressive, Graham. Bet it was hot getting that close with camera……and a lot of spilt gold there? Not quite as dramatic but added some colour to my crop…albeit a bit unrealistic.   Click here to comment on this image. |
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chrisbet
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The guy pouring the molten metal is focussed on only one thing - getting that stuff into that hole! That is why I cropped in tight, to tell the story of his "here and now", the concentration on his face and the dangerous material he is working with, I don't think an array of empty moulds is anywhere near as uppermost in his mind. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:The guy pouring the molten metal is focussed on only one thing - getting that stuff into that hole! That is why I cropped in tight, to tell the story of his "here and now", the concentration on his face and the dangerous material he is working with, I don't think an array of empty moulds is anywhere near as uppermost in his mind.You raise an interesting scenario. And I guess that’s why we have to ask ourselves what we are trying to ‘say’ with our image. You could crop it wider to show both men and call it Teamwork.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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For some reason the original image has been overwritten with a cropped version. Ok it’s corrected itself. Or leave it full image and emphasise the magnitude of the task …a Long Days Work ahead |
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Eric
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Anyone else want to join in with an image to crop? I suppose Graham your image could be cropped to add more importance to the GOLD…  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:You raise an interesting scenario. And I guess that’s why we have to ask ourselves what we are trying to ‘say’ with our image.I would have cropped to this point. |
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Graham Whistler
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The 3 or 4 large bars of gold (a normal month's total output) when cool the next day were put into the boot of the mine manager's wife's Moris Minor 1000 for the 50 mile shopping trip to Salisbury. She stopped at the bank and a bank member of staff took them to the volt for safekeeping. |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:The 3 or 4 large bars of gold (a normal month's total output) when cool the next day were put into the boot of the mine manager's wife's Moris Minor 1000 for the 50 mile shopping trip to Salisbury. She stopped at the bank and a bank member of staff took them to the volt for safekeeping.Not sure I would have trusted the suspension on my Moggie 1000 with 4 large bars of gold in the back.  Click here to comment on this image. First vehicle I owned. Bought it before I actually took my driving test. Passed my test came home and jumped in it for the first time to go back to work. It started to pour down with rain and the wipers were awful. Tried to brake at the works gatehouse and overshot 20ft past the barrier…fortunately raised …..pumping the foot brake like mad. It became clear the quality of the new BSM car I learnt to drive on and used for the test was far superior that’s my old Moggie. Great passion wagon though |
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Graham Whistler
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Mt first car Eric also a Morris Minor in Rhodesia out in the african bush 1962 poor quality taken by a friend with a very basic camera these are scanned off small faded prints.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Mt first car Eric also a Morris Minor in Rhodesia out in the african bush 1962 poor quality taken by a friend with a very basic camera these are scanned off small faded prints.Crikey Graham, that beats the RR Spirit of Ecstasy. British Leyland should have gone for that image as the Morris bonnet motif. Full marks for the shoe shine  |
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Iain
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I wouldn't like to sit on a car bonnet like that now, there would be a dent in it as they are not made like they were then. |
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Iain
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My first car was a Morris but it was a 1100. Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Iain....that sent a shudder down my spine. Every year I spent hours on the wife's 1100....usually replacing ball joints the night before the MOT.  I filled the rusty wings/sills and resprayed it for her just before we moved to Norfolk. I was living in a flat so the only place I could do it was in a friends back yard. Didn't consider the canal next door and the September midges...they seemed to be attracted to thinners. She had the only |
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Iain
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Mine didn’t last long, I had it a month before my test and less than a month after. I then put it in px for an Austin 1300gt. I have a pic of that somewhere as well. |
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Eric
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I still can't get over the shine on Graham's shoes. Well impressed! |
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Eric
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I reckon this crop says a lot more. How Graham kept his footware so pristine in Rhodesia, heaven knows. Click here to comment on this image. |
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