I took these photos from a car while up in Conneticut. I find humor in the fact that these church ushers are transporting a statue of the Virgin Mary around town by truck. Which do you like better as a gallery image. The top, the bottom or neither? If you do like one, do you have any suggestions on cropping, etc.? I know there is a bit of window reflection on the bottom one, but that doesn't bother me much for some reason. Thanks in advance!

personally i'd take the second one and crop it so that you keep that green lamp post in it and the sky... i suppose it's my like of perspective in shots that makes that my choice ;)

Something like this?

The composition of the group is better suited to the top picture and the humor of the situation is lost in the bottom one as they are too far away. So I'd favour the top one.

lol I prefer the top one for the humour be even more of a laugh if the guy at the bottom had a builders bum it was close!!

Top one is definately easier to work with, however the bottom has some great story, cropping close to the right side of their truck and cutting part of the cross-wallk. Now you've got some Italian guys messin with a statue.......Hmmmmm. LOL

Strange stuff here in CT....Ya know, we're not all like this. hehe

i was thinking a bit further in towards the lamp post so you could make out more of what they were doing - its a compromise between ease of seeing what is going on and picture quality i suppose.  Granted the top one is better for seeing what is going on, but the bottom one (in my opinion) is a stronger composition - mainly because you arent looking at the truck dead on...

I like the top one the best, however the next one has the funny part, being the corner store and saying little Italy... maybe you could do some stitch work on them to make it a wider shot??? That might be interesting??? I love your humor!!!!!

The bottom one doesn't do anything for me. The top one is my pick as well, although I'd say it would be worth fixing the distracting reflection.

I too think that the top one shows the humour of the situation far better.

I can't make up my mind about the crop though -

1. If you crop the left side between the guy standing on the left and the parking sign, the road on the right suggests a long trip to me, or at least the truck going somewhere.

2. If you crop it on the right between the truck and the parked cars it brings the building into the frame which may pass as a church, adding to the humour IMHO by reinforcing where the statue belongs.

Just my 2c. :lol:

Wayne.

 

One more crop of the bottom one. Great feedback from everyone, thank you. Isn't it odd how a lot of good feedback can sometimes make a decision tougher? Here's my thoughts. I like the top one because you are closer the action and can see more of what is going on. I like the bottom one for the perspective and sense of place. But as you can tell from this image, cropping in really brings out the noise in the image.

Here are the two other photos I got of these guys. The top one here is actually my favorite. Lefty's expression is priceless and like the way the one fella disappears behind the statue. I also like the way the statue is looking right at the viewer. Thoughts?

Sure, now you give us more choices??? LOL!!! Well, I love the top one here best too, it might be really cool if you could isolate the truck only, and put them one a long winding road somewhere?? It might be a perfect time to merge two completely different photos??? or possibly 3 photos?? like get me to the church on time??? LOL now, you've got a challenge!! Maybe you can summon up some offers of photos to merge with????..... just my wild idea...  

Great wild idea. I'll do a side DITI with 3-4 different photos and let you guys go to it! ;]