La Famiglia (wider crop)
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Which crop do you prefer?
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Technical Details
Iso 64 1/60 f/8 56mm, no tripod
Specific Feedback
The second (wide) version has some negative space I’m missing in the narrower crop. However, it also has that large bright area above the mountain which might be a distraction.
Would appreciate your thoughts.
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Hi Tom love the flecks of light painting those trees and the near blackout darkness just behind where the light doesn’t touch. To be honest I think I would come away from the reflection of the sky altogether crop it to a square image such that the sunlit trees form a circular pattern inside that nearly black square crop. It would I think create a lovely and quizzical semi abstract.
Oh what a gorgeous light 
Given the choice between the two I would go with te second one, it’s a perfect mirror and more balanced, still I would add some more emphasis to the tree and trees reflection, maybe with a vignette.
My first thinking was a bit like @Ian_Cameron said, a square crop with that gorgeous round pattern. To create a minimalist geometric image.
Thanks for sharing,
Cheers
@Ian_Cameron @João_Ferrão thank you guys.
I did consider the square crop as you suggested. I think too it works nicely and I can totally understand why you would prefer that.
The reason I did not go with it in the final image was that I feel the dark space is less than I’d like, esp. around the reflection (and when enough black space is left - there will be some bright part of the sky’s reflection on the BRC).
I’ll give that a second consideration, thanks again!
Thank you for that too @João_Ferrão !
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