A friend recently gave me an assignment- to turn what I was personally going through into an image. Not an easy task. Somehow it became a self portrait, something I've never really done before. Here's the image I came up with. Now I need your help in deciding which crop is best. I think seeing the entire arm gives it forward momentum, where as there's a nice feeling being closer in. What do you think?
Thanks Sara!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sara - and you too, since I think you secretly favor the 'whole-arm' image.
ReplyDeleteThe decisive point for me is that when I look at the cropped image, I find myself curious about what's happening outside the boundaries of the crop. In some images I think that curiosity is a good/desirable thing - but in this case, having seen the 'whole-arm' image, there's no question in my mind that the larger image imparts much more information.
I sense you're on a journey - and the cropped image doesn't convey that as well. I can see your past on the left and the future in front of you on the right in the whole-armer. Choose that one. :)
Yep. Not cropped!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Leave whole arm/hand in for all the reasons so well expressed already. I'd give you an A+!
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