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Tat's always the problem with composition... :-)
Either you want to achieve something (a story) and play with settings and composition's accepted and widespread rules (or on the contrary flaunt them)...

Or you just have a nice feeling about the scene and take a picture of it to keep it in some sort of Proust's madeleine diairy !

In the first situation you already think about communicating the picture when you take it, in the second situation,it's more personal and when you show it to others, it's like giving them a bit of your inner feelings...!

None is superior to the other, they are just juxtaposed !
But Colman was right in trying to show how the same picture can tell different stories... :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 07:19:21 AM EST
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In keeping with the Capa "get closer" quotation (above in ref to In Wales' pub portrait) I'd go even closer. The out of focus stuff doesn't add much for me, and in this close-up you notice the buds more - while there is still enough fuzzy background to give a bit of context and to bring out focus on flower.

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Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 08:50:47 AM EST
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I prefer mine. I like the context.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 08:53:58 AM EST
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That's the irritating thing about aesthetics :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:16:45 AM EST
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