Last week I posted two almost identical pictures of a juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull. I said I preferred A. But why?
A.
B.
Almost everyone who responded saw the same thing I did. Look at the top of picture B’s frame. The Ring-billed Gull’s head is chopped off. Even though shot B is zoomed in a bit closer, the lopping off the head of the bird at the top of the frame (and a bit of the tail of the bird on the left) makes the picture look incomplete. As Kathleen aptly put it, “It is more relaxing to look at A because the top bird is not cut in two and the one on the left has space between it and the edge of the photo. It needed breathing space.”
Sometimes, like when there are many birds in the frame, you almost have to cut off some of the birds along the edges. When possible, like in this case, including whole birds is easier to view than seeing some that are cut off.
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