Crushed

[RBSinTo]

Take earlier this summer at Nathan Phillip's Square near the Toronto city Hall, earlier this summer.
I noticed a discarded Grape Crush soft drink can sitting on the concrete slab pavers, and liking the vivid purple of the can and the way it broke up the grey, geometric background took this shot.
Motorized Nikon FG
Nikkor 24 f2 AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
f11 @ 1/30th

[Mike Buckley]

Great eye! I really like the tilted look (unusually so for me) but wish only the floor and can were included in the image.

[RBSinTo]

Great eye! I really like the tilted look (unusual so for me) but wish only the floor and can were included in the image.

Thanks Mike.
I tried to correct the tilt, but that results in a great deal of cropping being necessary, which eliminates the "sweep" of the shot from foreground into the distance that I liked. Similarly, that's why I didn't crop out the uppermost distracting elements, as has been suggested as well at all the other sites where this is posted. I left them in to give the image a deeper sweep from foreground into the distance and rationalized their inclusion as anchoring the shot at the top.
Robert

[madcrow]

Nice shot and very, very well spotted also great creativity.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[RBSinTo]

Maurice / John,
Thanks for the kind words.
Robert

[Mike Buckley]

the uppermost distracting elements...I left them in...as anchoring the shot at the top.

If you have a version that includes more of those elements at the top, I think they would probably do a better job of anchoring the image.

[RBSinTo]

If you have a version that includes more of those elements at the top, I think they would probably do a better job of anchoring the image.

Mike,
I don't. But I suppose I could buy a can of Grape Crush and re-shoot this. I'm down there all the time anyway.
Seems the little bits at the top are making everyone crazy.
Robert