King & University, Toronto

Excellent street shot!

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Thanks, William.

Lovely compo *_* J***********************************

Thanks, Love Song. The big photo wasn't bad, but I thought this section was better.

I do cropping and sharpening and other photographic misdemeanours as well. A good picture is hard to surrender if the only thing wrong with it is that you were too distant and it turned out a bit indistinct. Some of my pictures are measured in KB. If I printed them, they'd have to be limited to passport size. I agonise over these imperfections.

I've been experimenting with blowing up tiny crops, TLC, and then editing them, but no luck so far. I started cropping when I noticed the corners of my photos were often more interesting than the complete views.

Very good composition.
Fresh tones, active, decided elegant woman and set up.

Thanks, José. I found them an interesting group. Elegant woman, colourful man, summery woman.

Great reflections as always and the three figures are perfectly placed. I have no qualms about cropping. If you photograph bees in flight it's almost inevitable. And in my old age I've got very nit picky about sharpness.

Thanks, Jean. The reflections are one of the reasons I like this corner. It's dominated by two glass towers that are close to mirror images (the Sun Life Towers East and West). They liven up grey old downtown Toronto considerably.

This could be called "reflecting on Toronto", with the three well-placed subjects plus your reflection. I'm another who makes no apologies for cropping, sharpening etc.

Thanks, George. As I mentioned to Jean this corner is a treasure trove of reflections.

Like a scene in a play of Samuel Beckett. Three people together but alone. Modern Times !

Thanks, Ulrich. That is how it struck me, too.

Yes, it does gain a lot seen large, and I don't notice the grain, but my new glasses just don't seem to be doing their job. Probably time for cataract removal.

The fellow seems to be startled by the walking blonde - or is that a sort of leer? Maybe there is a sort of connection, but not the best sort? And the scene itself is downtown busy, in a good way - the sort of downtown there is a reason to be in.Well seen, as they say.

Thanks, Bob. Yes, I like the ambiguity about how they are responding to each other, if indeed they are responding at all. It's only a 1/125 second glimpse of them.

My judgment of grain was based on a very close view of the photo, so your eyes are probably fine.

It always seems a bit odd to me that people "worry" about a bit of grain in their images nowadays, but didn't bat an eyelid about it in the early days of digital and the days of film cameras! This one seems fine to me John..!!

As a combined selfie and street candid it works really well, I especially like the reflections - lot of stuff to look at there! Very nicely taken (and cropped).

I quite often shoot wide and then crop to suit afterwards...............things can look quite different on the big screen!

I thoroughly agree. W. H. Fox Talbot's photos were pretty vague, but he still was clearly a fine photographer. The only field in which I can see an argument for not cropping is photojournalism, where it's argued cropping can be misleading. However, it's not hard to think of circumstances in which not cropping would be misleading. Anyway, since when is journalism not misleading? Toronto has four daily newspapers and they often seem as if they were each published on different planets.

And as ipernaut Canadian Pacific says, in the age of Photoshop perfection is just another option.

actually, you did a very good job in cropping this perfect street scene

Thank you, Ruebenkraut.

I like the large one best, because I can see how indifferent the man looks. His face says, "Huhhh." The women occupy themselves.

One of the reaons I cropped it was the impersonal look of the original photo, of which this is one-quarter. Here the people come across as individuals.