Composition

I like this one, but at the same time something seems wrong.

Would you crop it? How?

I'm not a pro but I would crop. Getting rid of the black negative space and the out of focus left foreground would definately improve the picture.

I love the impact of the fish face, so tightening it up would give more zing to the shot, IMHO

Doug

A tighter crop might help but I think a little better lighting would help more. I realize that is difficult with a moving fish but that is my thought.

I agree with the above regarding a tighter crop. Also, next time if you want to capture those "moody" shots, try close down your lens more to make the rest of the fish completely black (you can do it with photoshop, but it is not the same ).

Luiz

Maybe, something like this?

-fish fills about half the frame

-good diagonal

-fish has room to move into (without the distracting negative space)

-it might work even better if cropped even tighter on the head

(I like the lighting on the fish's face.)

Take Care,

Chris

You loose a little detail making such a big crop, You need to fill the frame with your subject. Seems like the shadow is a mistake and creates a harsh line. This is how I would crop it and fix it up a little but there is too much digital noise on my copy you might get it a little better with the original.

The reason I like my crop is the eye is more engaging a swimming toward the viewer effect, the other seems like it is swimming away. The background has a nice diagnal to follow the fishes line also. The eye off center look more at you than the original. We lose some of the color in the coral but you can try the vertical composition and compromise a little between my version and the original. Have fun

Thanks everybody.

Actually, I wanted to keep the shadow. I have some other shots of anthiases where they fill the frame and are better lit like this one:

http://www.pbase.com/czyzyk/image/57261212

I processed the first one on a different display and the shadow seemed way deeper than what I see now on a laptop's display. That is a bit weird, I need to check on that.

Edit:

The same picture looks fine (dark black shadow) on samsung 173p and it sucks on iBook's display (you can see a washed out background). I edited it to look fine on iBook it then looked overprocessed on Samsung...

That shot on the link is great but I think your definition of filling the frame is a little forgiving.