Bin Day II

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

This is a second try at my previous Bin Day photo, since I had an idea afterwards to try to improve the composition. I don't think its a big improvement, but there is a bit more compression, and a bit less distraction at the far end. I also like having the centre of the road straight, as it adds to the symmetry. Also, apparently the people who parked on the street on this particular day were a bit american.

Canon A720 - 1/125 sec - f/4 - ISO 200 - ~127mm

Morning daylight.

Used GIMP to adjust levels, crop, scale and watermark.

I had a lot of trouble picking a final crop for this image. When shooting I moved way back so that I'd have a lot of options for the crop. I went for a pretty tight crop, very similar to the first one (framing using the two overhanging trees). I had the option of a wider crop with more bins, and showing more interesting detail on the tops of the trees, but I felt that the framing added a lot to the shot. There's not a huge difference, but when you consider the changed aspect ration, there is a small amount of compression occuring, and there's definitely less of the fence at the end of the street, thanks to being higher up the hill.
I used my compact camera for the first shoot because I had it with me while I was waiting to be picked up for work, and had been expecting to take it with me and get a photo there. I think I might have a third crack at this image with my dSLR and a really narrow lens.
I actually shot a bunch of angles and compositions, and just as I was walking away thought "oh, I should check that I don't have some stupid setting on that I didn't realise". The ISO was still at 1600 from the stupid shoe shot. Fortunately I caught it this time, and went back and shot with a reasonable ISO.