springm wrote:What I would dismiss (which means dismissing the ones that are only a tad less excellent then the others)
3 - similar pose as #2, and I do prefer the single portrait here
Yes, this way of holding their arms was common in the mornings -- children and adults.
5 - the least excellent of the kids pics in comparison
Hmm, this is a tough one for me. For years I have liked this photo a lot. It was lightly raining and this little boy was hiding under the old shirt with his mother and baby looking on. It is so hard to objective about my own stuff.
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Here is the photo so others can see what we are talking about:
7 - because 6 is stronger when cropped
Do you mean in the way I cropped it in my earlier response to Sonolta? Somehow it seems too tightly cropped to me and I lose the body of the little boy looking around the small tree. Again, so difficult.
9 - not happy with the pose, especially the elbows
I have been leaning towards eliminating 9 and keeping 18, but you think I should eliminate both?
15 - it for sure is interesting but depending on the print size maybe not enough structured
Yes, this one is difficult to figure out at a smaller size and in B&W. The original is in color so the bloody pig carcass, green grass, etc. are more easily differentiated. I understand your thoughts on this and agree.
18 - the lady is included, albeit less prominent, in 13, and this tells me more about the family
I like 13 quite a lot, but actually the man in the foreground is a bit soft with the woman, baby, and boy in sharp focus.
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Just not enough time to carefully adjust for proper dof and no time to shoot another frame. I look at National Geographic photos a lot going back to when I first became interested in photography in the early 1970s. Many, many of their images are not technically perfect, have focus that is a bit off, unsharp corners, etc. so this flaw in this photo makes me wonder what I should do.
Difficult to select from these as the overall level is so high.
Thank you very much.