Editing your own work can be a painful process. Take these 3 images below, which were taken within the space of a minute at the East Finchley Festival yesterday afternoon.




At the time I was convinced that the middle image was a winner, with the conductor’s hands framing his face and the drummer hitting the cymbal. Only when I reviewed it later did I realise that there’s quite a lot of dead space at the top of the frame. The image on the right fills the entire frame, but the drummer is no longer playing. The left image strikes the right balance, with the conductor filling the top of the frame and the drummer playing, but this time the conductor’s right hand is partly obscuring his face.




Which begs the question of which image is the “best” one? I’m still undecided, which is where you come in :-) Simply reply to this post, saying which image is your favourite and why. Personally my biggest worry is that all 3 images miss the mark in some way, and that none of them are the “best”...

Conductor #1	Conductor #2	Conductor #3