Same shot, three different crops. Can’t make up my mind. Opinions?
Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle
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winterSmith 
The top one does it for me showing more of the hull above waterline. A sad picture though, like a ballerina with one leg. Not much use for the purpose designed.
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Top one for me too. Interesting shot, right up my wabi sabi alley!
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Agree with the crew on this one – the bottom two crops are too tight. The top one still reads boat.
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Mutiny! I like the bottom one. Might be interesting rotated with the keel/stern? on the bottom so you can no longer tell it’s a boat. In the top one, I find the brass keel/stern too in my face. Interesting subjects-I hope to see more!
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All in all, I think I need to go back up there and have another go at this one from the side – 45 degrees on. That would take the less interesting port side out of play. My instinct that the time was to shoot the deteriorated symmetry, but we know by now that it sometimes takes me two or three trips to get it right.
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Top–space gives it context. The other two are sort of creepy pseudo-anatomical.
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Creepy? It’s a BOAT.
Of course, now you’ve given me an idea….
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Jeepers creepers, your nasty old boat has some seepers (LOL). To the life rafts, women and children first! 8^)
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The top one. Cat’s right. Context is critical here … and we don’t even need to know what it is, if, like here, the bottom horizontal provides clear visual balance. Balance is everything, which is why the others fail for me.
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I like the first the best as it is more symmetrical and seems to be in balance.
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of the three, the top. Like you suggest, I think a different angle could really get you something. You make me laugh, at myself, because I also often have to either spend a lot of time or revisit to capture what I’m feeling.
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