Hi Hugo, thank you for your extensive considerations on the composition, I appriciate that very much! I understand what you mean, I also considered cropping more on the right side. However in this series I gave myself an extra challenge always to use the full frame of the film for the composition. It yields a larger unity between the different images in the series, in my opinion. The drawback is that the balance in the individual images can be slightly sub-optimal :-)
Hi Hermen, very powerful shot, and I do like the composition; somewhat dynamic, by means of the perspective. In the overview on this image, i think the left hand side differs from the right hand side because the composition on the left is more closed than the right hand side; where the eye can "easily escape", if you see what I mean. I think a small crop could correct that, without changing too much. Key element in that is a change in intersecting edge between photo and the cross beams. By letting the cross beam on the right exit on the bottom edge, the entire edge on the right is unused. Cropping the image (composing it would be a better option, but I cannot change that) so that the beam crosses the right hand edge of the photo increases the balance a bit more, as well as closes the composition better. Hope you see what I mean. See also the attached image.
The only thing that gets liost in this crop is the increasing with of the black background; but that's a matter of composition, and not of cropping.
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