One evening last semester, we were working on a group project and started sharing where we live. “I love Naples!” My teammate said to me, “You have beautiful beaches.”
We better, I thought. My very affluent community spends a lot of money on them.
Being the gracious lady that I am, I held my tongue and said, “Thank you.” Literally that same week, I ended up having to stay home from work to deal with car issues. While it was being repaired, I decided to walk to the beach and remind myself that I had a lot of things to be grateful for.
I got to the beach and remembered that my county is in the middle of a beach regeneration project. My first thought was to take a picture to share with my classmate. So I found a somewhat safe spot and tried to take some pictures. However, it was bright and hard to see the screen of my phone. When I got home, the pictures looked bad, so I decided not to share them. Here is an example of one of the pictures:
It is a boring picture. Not only is my knee in the way, but the surreal experience of an oversized Tonka truck driving up and down the beach with a minion is lost.
This week, I decided to edit this picture using the Rule of Thirds. It was hard to pick between the two subjects, and how to position the image vertically. I finally came up with this:
I think this version not only better represents the enormity of the trucks that were rolling down the beach that day, but it gives me an opportunity to tell a much better story.
This was the day the Decepticons came for me.
Hi Amy! I think your edit of the original picture changes a lot. The first thing I noticed in the original picture was your knee at the bottom. By cropping that out and positioning the truck at one of the intersections, it removed the distraction of your knee and put the truck in better focus. Also, by cropping out the grass on the left, it eliminates another distraction from the main focus of the picture. Good job!
Hello, Amy! I like your version of the photo. It definitely highlights the truck and also changes the perspective. No one would even suspect that your knee was initially visible in the first version. Aside from that, I noticed that the plants in the left-hand corner were removed, giving the image a sense of depth. Well done!