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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Todd, sorry to be late with my comments, but when I first saw your image earlier in the month, I was impressed with both your capture and post-processing. Your 1/10 sec exposure created a real nice lacy effect for the falls and I agree with your lowering the contrast to further soften the image. Nice job! Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy New Year. |
Dec 27th |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
I like you mission to keep in mind the insects. They can be difficult critters to capture in a frame, but worth the effort. I'm amazed you did as well as you did in getting the moving-wing detail. At a shutter speed of 1/400, the moving parts look good. Like others in the group, I agree with Larry's rendition of greater cropping and bringing out a diagonal line-of-sight created by the cropping. Wishing you good shooting in a happy and healthy New Year. |
Dec 27th |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Mark, what a great capture! And to shoot this hand-held in a floating canoe at 420mm is remarkable. I appreciate your "if only I had..." comment since these kinds of action images don't allow for a lot of fine-tuning of camera settings. I wouldn't want to count the number of my failures to have the best setting on a moment's notice. Your image's sharpness and DOF are outstanding. The 1/1250 shutter speed captured the moving action. My only post-processing suggestion would be to crop some of the water in the FG, maybe up to the bird's reflection and move the left border inward to tighten the frame. Short of this minor suggestion, nice shot! |
Dec 10th |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Madhu, I can see why this is a favorite image. The gruesome scene captures the brute force of nature. The focus and DOF are good. You have captured well the calculating eyes of the cheetah with its prey. Looks like this mother and cub ate well that night. It would be interesting to see the original frame to look at how you cropped and edited, if at all. Wild animals naturally blend with the scenery, so I think the task in post-processing is to bring out the cheetah from the BG, to the extent possible. I might have played with softening the saturation of the yellow and green grass to better highlight the cheetah. However, the mom has yellow in her too, so I don't know if that would have helped. Clearly, the focus of this image is the end of the successful hunt, which you have captured- nicely and timely. |
Dec 9th |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Richard, count me as a fan of your Egret image. When I first opened the group submissions page, our image jumped out. I really like the bird and its reflection against the large black BG. I might have been tempted to crop more and make the Egret larger in the frame, but I like the way you rendered the proportion of figure to ground. It's great that you had and took the time to get the setting that worked in this dark scene. It also works that the bird's tail feathers are just above the water's surface, making a nicely defined reflection. Nice capture! |
Dec 7th |
| 67 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Larry, you've posted some incredible images, but this one tops them all. This shot is truly amazing - and your story of the hunt is no less remarkable. And your BBQ self-reward is the icing on the cake! Your image is dark and your subject is stealth-for-survival. The raindrops add to the aura of lurking danger, from which the alligator emerges as the victor. The raindrop-ripples look like targets that surround the alligator, apropos of the alligator's mission.
I marvel at the image that you envisioned in your head, your pursuit, and your capture. Your camera technique and post-processing are equally outstanding.
Your image has a strong resemblance to a newly published photo-book that I read about in the Washington Post this morning. The book is by Aapo Huhta. The title is "Omatandangole," which, in the language of Namibia, means a kind of mirage that appears in the heated air. When you look at his photos posted in the article, you will find a kindred spirit. Here is the link to the article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/12/02/desert-far-home-this-photographer-finds-place-create-his-own-world-flee-his-problems/ |
Dec 2nd |
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