Wonder Wednesday: Zooming In!

zoomed in to spot the flower girl

farmer’s market uncropped

whole enchilada uncropped

looking back

neatly cropped

I had fun with street photography Saturday at the farmer’s market and Gordo’s Taco shop.  There is no zooming in with an iPhone, you have to take a wide scene and then go home and edit  and crop.

I really wanted to take a picture of the little girl peddling her pink bike around the farmer’s market, but I knew no parent would like a stranger takeing their child’s picture, so I took photos of the orchid and took my chances that I would get an interesting picture and honor the child’s privacy.  Same at the restaurant. I was intrigued with how the gentleman with the hat that mirrored the mural. I pretended to photograph the mural but I got caught by the little girl giving me the stink eye in the foreground. I didn’t even notice her until I began to edit.

Same can be said for writing: throw down on to the page everything you might want to say and then go back and edit, crop frame or zoom in on what tells the best story. The story you started out to tell on paper or in pictures might not even be the one you end up with!  Let yourself be surprised. A second set of  eyes might be useful too. Which pictures do you prefer out of this batch?

To see a slide show click on any picture the arrows on the right.