Originally Posted by
Dave Humphries
Hi Judith,
I also wondered about the aspect ratio of the crop, it feels as though it were influenced by something you have cropped out.
These days, PS CC has the ability to fill, if you extend the canvas, after cropping.
This has helped me get an image frame back to an aspect ratio that suits the subject shape after removing extraneous content.
With this, the obvious would be to extend the right-hand side, but other possibilities exist - e.g. add to the top, remove from bottom, making a tall thin frame with subject at/below the lower third, hinting at the height from which the drops fell.
What did make me think, was your inclusion of the orange blob in the background, it gives depth, but because underlaid with the subject, doesn't distract as much as if it had been elsewhere in the frame. I'm not sure I'd have captured that, had I been shooting the scene, I would probably have positioned it away from the subject and cloned it out in PP.
Nandakumar's suggestion to desaturate the blob (in my view, not too much), has some merit.
Take care,
Dave