https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/i-want-more--photographers-explaining-the...

In response to the above thread, here’s an explanation for one from my Gallery. It’s certainly not my best but lends itself to this purpose.

In my mind there are only two components to any picture, subject and composition. For me it’s 50/50 and if one is lacking it drags down the other. This is mostly about composition. I had to take a picture of a nearby street or a feature in the street. I’d walked past these bikes twice a day since they were installed and had long considered a photograph, this was a good reason. A bog standard picture of a row of bikes was easy but to inject a photogenic quality required a bit more.

The picture makes use of various compostion aids, the frame, corners, a repetitive pattern, converging lines and a tilt. The picture frame itself is key to most of these. I deliberately placed the road markings against the left side of the frame and the wheel in the corner. This angle gives a quirky look and the left border itself plays a part in guiding the eye along the repeating pattern of bikes. That and the low shooting position emphasizes the converging lines and (conveniently) these are mirrored in the shop fronts above the man in a white shirt.

Picture borders, corners and diagonals are three of my favourite composition aids, as a look through my Gallery will show. It’s easy to over think these things though, plus they are aids not rules and shouldn’t feature in every picture.

I seem to remember someone in this thread (which I can't find it now)suggesting people explain how they went about taking a picture. It might make an interesting and informative thread, based on 'I framed it this way because..' statements rather than 'You need to crop the top off..' type critique.

I think the website design enhances the quality of your images, it's simplicity doesn't take anything away from them. I'm not sure 'Tim's pile of photos' does it justice but it's always better to err on the side of modesty and visitors will quickly realise it contains some excellent work.

Just a note, there's an image missing from one page, 'Outdoors' I think.

Indeed it is.

That's a nice shot JammyBee.

I've only ever posted images in the Gallery and I always look there to see the latest additions. It's nice to know if someone likes something enough to comment.

Some excellent pictures, I like the first, fourth and last.

After a looooong time, now 64bit and with optimisations for modern AMD processors, V2 has been released.

https://store.aftershotpro.com/1184/purl-eDM_ASP2_Launchw1

I think 8x10 actually improves the image as (IMO) cutting around a 5th off the bottom, which is relatively dark, concentrates attention on the better portion.

I assume you've also emailed camera dealers in your area with the serial number. Outlets like CashConverters as well.