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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Stuart |
Jun 24th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Tom. I think a slightly different cropping might help enhance the image a bit. Will keep that in mind about the right subject for scale |
Jun 24th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Larry. Will take care of the glare basis all your inputs. |
Jun 24th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Super Beverly. Thanks for stopping by and providing your feedback. Means something!
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Jun 17th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Sure Dick. Will try my hands on polarizer. Just wondering if it would impact the quality by any chance but good to experiment and find out. |
Jun 17th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks a lot Janet. Head is ed inside. Surely will try the cropping you mentioned. Thank you! |
Jun 17th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Hi Tom, its a nice capture of natural beauty. I liked the well balanced colors, especially the whites (not blown out). In my view, the brightness can be brought up a bit. Although the subject is cut all round, the sanctity is maintained to keep the viewer's attention. |
Jun 13th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Excellent colors captured Dick. Overall fantastic image in terms of composition, color, sharpness, taking advantage of stacking process, isolation of subject. Curious to know what made you choose the stacking process while the click is very parallel to the subject? |
Jun 13th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Beautiful contrast and colors. Post processing is also excellent in my opinion. One point to highlight in my view, is the stigma placement can be brought a little to the right so it can fall in the rule of third grid to improve the looks. |
Jun 13th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Hi Stuart, shapes and colors well captured. I think the composition is too tight and cut the subject. However, the usual subject is shown differently which I liked. |
Jun 13th |
| 6 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Nice and sharp image Salvador. It looks as though horse is keeping a watch on the fly. In my opinion, the eye details can be shown brighter. |
Jun 13th |
5 comments - 6 replies for Group 6
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| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Warm welcome to one of the lively groups Todd!
Superb capture of a habitat shot. I liked the color contrast and the bird's head turn.
Couple of things that I observed here... One is the negative space is more on the right side of the frame which could be avoided by a different cropping. Other one is I see lack of sharpness, may have been caused due to heavy cropping.
Overall, I loved to see one of my favorite birds of prey. |
Jun 24th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thank you very much Todd. A warm welcome to this lively group 67. Yes even I liked that catch light in the eye. 🙂 |
Jun 17th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Exactly Cheryl. All the birds look beautiful if we can manage a closer look. Thanks for sharing a behavioral aspect about nest. |
Jun 17th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thank you so much Larry. |
Jun 17th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I agree with others on the color variations / extremes you have out here... beautiful. For a minute, even I wondered if its cricket or katydid. What made me wonder is the geographical difference, differentiating the flora and fauna between regions. Yes, its antennae are really long to keep them in frame while you retain the required details. Its mostly a compromise between the details on the body vs. full inclusion. This presentation is very much acceptable in my opinion. However, one point I would like to add is to down play the highlights on the white bg to avoid a bit of distraction. |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Cute little bird! Lucky you can click such birds from your kitchen dining table/window :)
I see you have cropped much to get a closer view of the bird yet not losing the required details. Good choice of presenting the required proportion in the frame. I am wondering how much more colorful would the male bird be? Will look upto our Google Baba to see the male :) Thanks for sharing this nice click.
Lastly, my personal choice would have been to show the horizontal view of this due to the head turn and positive spacing to improve the aesthetics... but yet would have compromised the amount of details on the bird from your view... |
Jun 13th |
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| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Lovely timing of the action. I liked the unusual head turn, creating curiosity in viewers to know what is really happening there. I concur with Michael for lighting up shadows to show a bit more details (though not much interesting patterns in that area yet it may be worth). Our immediate reaction when we see birds is to click, click, click... but your observation and narration helps to improve patience in us to take risk of even missing a click yet come back with sense of satisfaction that you watched how the bird behaved and what it did... |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Wow! What a start of the day (although it disturbed your sleep)... Interesting fact about the mating ritual/behavior. Thanks for sharing. Is it for all woodpeckers? I guess it is but just checking to confirm |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Wow Larry! A good example I see for clicking landscape using telephoto lens. Thar rim light on the clouds and the right exposure on the trees along with the not-so-dense mist made the frame exemplary. I wonder what the other photographers would be thinking when you clicked this shot while they let go of the moment :)
I personally felt the yellow is little more for my liking but I may be wrong considering the landscape guru like you has presented this way... Lastly, I agree with Michael on B&W presentation to make it more dramatic. |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Lovely find and moment freeze Michael. Seeing this for the first time. This looks like our Fan Throated Lizard from India if you are aware. Their courtship display are always interesting to watch given the colors it opens out. In my opinion, since you could not go parallel due to limitation, it would have been good to open up aperture to make the bg even more softer. As it is, the lizard tail is softer despite of using f8. So rather a wider aperture would have given room for lesser ISO value inturn giving great capability to play in processing. All said, critics may be several, but the timing of the click and moment freeze is incredible |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
oh! trust me, she was alert and watching me & my friends all the time... but yeah lucky enough to get this clear image before she decided to fly away. BG is mud pit side wall as explained above |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Richard. Super encouraging feedback! |
Jun 13th |
| 67 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks a lot Michael. Will look at the selective part processing. Background is the side wall of a wide spread mud pit (not very deep) dug for brick making. That side wall was at least 5-6 mtrs away to give this buttery bokeh which we all as photographers wish for... |
Jun 13th |
6 comments - 7 replies for Group 67
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11 comments - 13 replies Total
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