Exercise 7: A Sequence of Compositions

Not sure if this strictly counts as I took this sequence a while back... in August last year but at the time of taking the photographs my thoughts were pretty much the same as the point of this exercise, namely, take the photos as the parade passes and see how many are near misses or if any come up with something worthwhile. Ultimately I think there were 2 or 3 that I have subsequently used with a bit of cropping and editing in CS4. These particular photos I've edited in lightroom and have deliberately used an aged photo setting. they have a greenish/ yellow cast and probably wont be winning any prizes for colour definition, but I i think it works given the sky and the props.

1- Not very interesting and the subject is not striking any interesting pose

2- Better but too much background clutter

3. starting to get interesting

4- oops... flag in the way

5- again, starting to get interesting but nothing out of the ordinary

5- nice shot if only the hand not been cut out

6-nope

7- ok i can work with this one-it conveys the message well

8- again, oops

9-i like this one. the bride is lovely and the lovers behind her convey the intimacy she hopes for

with a bit of cropping this one might work too. pity about the head in the way.