Apples

[4XTaco]

Both taken at a local Apple Harvest Festival... I guess you could say a before and after picture.

[GB1]

Ben - I like the pattern of the first one, but feel that it needs to be expanded upon by removing the boundaries. Hope you dont mind but I did a quick edit to show you what I mean (hard to put into words...) Note that I also rotated it CCW one degree.

The second is OK but I think the people in the shot are distracting. Perhaps a crop of only the apples?

GB

[MB1]

I like the original better but I do agree with you about the rotation.

I agree completely that the people in the lower image are a distraction and that the image is to cluttered.

[4XTaco]

Great idea for the first one, I probably will crop it down some and also try to get the color in the apples to come out more on the final copy.

The 2nd one I am still trying to figure out what to do... and I keep trying different things to it but yes I would like to remove the people from around it. I stood there by the cart for a good 10 minutes (then he started moving into the crowd again) but there were just too many people. I snapped several pictures and I think that was the best of the bunch. I really like the color and plastic wrap look in this photo and want to be able to use it but I definitely will need to do something about cropping out the people or removing them in PS somehow or getting it cropped down tighter.

[readingr]

Ben,

I'm having a real problem with both of these. The bottom one has already been covered on the background.

The top one seems to lack punch and colour. I am almost tempted to suggest converting it to B&W to bring out the textures inherent in the photo and ignore colour alltogether.

Hope that makes sense

Roger

[4XTaco]

I'll definitely try that out... the people that sponsor this event every year are having a contest and I would like to have some shots to enter. I have a lot of other pictures from the event, I am still weeding through all the shots.