This is my happy place when looking at this picture before cropping the photo. You see everything and there is no focus. You have the sky, the hills, the eagle’s nest, the pond, the house, and the ATV. There is a lot of different things to focus and you can get distracted by many different things going on in the picture.
Now with the photo cropped its focus is on the house where I used to sleep after a long day of being out in the middle of nowhere. The ATV took me to all the new and different places. With the photo is cropped you can just focus on two different things the house and the ATV. Having cropped the picture shows a different story. Having the photo cropped I like that the house is more in focus. I learned a lot and did a lot in that house.
Hey Matthew,
I totally get the new perspective of the photo. In the first picture there was a lot going on, but you did a good job focusing in and bringing my attention to what you wanted me to see. Side note I love this house in the middle of nowhere( my assumption) it reminds me of off grid living !! Overall great work!
Hi Matthew,
Nice to meet you. What a wonderful place to live, it must be so peaceful to live among the trees and next to a river. In the first image, the focus is more on the water body and the beautiful reflection of the mountains in the water. However, in the cropped image, the focus is more on the house and ATV. I think the rule of thirds could have been handled better by cropping the image a little more on the right so that the house appears in one-third of the image. Overall great composition and selection of the image for this assignment.