Summer Lovin'

[El Sid]

A rarity for me - a people picture...


Summer Lovin' by Nigel Hayes, on Flickr

[Tigger]

Re: Summer Lovin'

like the couple not so sure about the framing with the tree - I would try for a heavy crop to loose it

[Dave61]

Re: Summer Lovin'

I like how you caught the couple, but for me I`d crop in too as the frame does it no favours, sorry.

[AlexR!]

Re: Summer Lovin'

I like it, Nigel, with the framing, which I think turns what could be an ordinary shot into something a bit different. Do like the rim lighting on them.

[Parsen66]

Re: Summer Lovin'

For me the OOF heavy branch on the left side is the issue. Think it works if the crop removes that and leaves the other on the right

[tesarver]

Re: Summer Lovin'

I'm with Andy on this image. The framing isolates the couple taking an ordinary image into a forbidden look. Nigel

Tom

[El Sid]

Re: Summer Lovin'

An interesting split of opinion here - looks like I managed a bit of pictorial Marmite...

I did try a crop without the tree on the left but then the one on the looked unbalanced. Cropping out both loses too much pixel count and the quality goes down plus I felt the end result was a bit too bland and happy snapper-ish - I could have gone with more focal length at the taking stage but framed like this to avoid the same happy snapper blandness. In the end I settle on losing most of the tree on the left but keeping enough to act as a frame.