I Can Do This.

[NKP68]

Central Park NYC on a cold Friday. While preping for a shot of this curving bench this gentleman decided to walk on it.
C&C please.

[Don Schaeffer]

I can't see his feet very well--which weakens the shot. It might be better if you sacrificed some of that arching bench to crop in on him.

[gahspidy]

I agree with Don in a sense that we don't really see for sure that he's walking on the bench, but, I would not want to lose that great lead-in. So, I would say original crop because whatever the guy is doing, and we can certainly assume he is walking on the bench, I just like to be lead into the scene the way it does.

My critique would be that instead of the bench leading in and then leading us eventually out to the side of the frame i would like to have seen the bench start at the lower left hand corner and leading us up and into the middle top area of the frame. you would have had to stand over a bit more to the right and turn a bit to your left. You would be getting more of the back side of the benches, but with all the snow covering it i don't think it mattered anyway.

Still pretty cool as it is, and love the use of FG elementsto lead in.

[LeeIs]

The lead-in line is great. takes you right in the photo, which is something that makes photos a lot more attractive to me. I also like the fact that he's wearing such a bright jacket and he's not lost to the busy background. I agree about not being able to see clearly that he's on this fence, but I recognized it right away even at this size because of the title of the post.

I'm sure at a bigger size, it'll be more apparent.