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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Comment |
Andy, Congratulations on
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/03/winners-2020-world-nature-photography-awards/618234/
That's quite an honor. |
Mar 19th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
Steve, Let me repeat that I'm so impressed with your edits. They really bring out details of the plumage that had been blown out. But I have a question about the black eye. It now disappears into the black forehead plumage. Does it abide by Nature+ regs and intentions to enhance the eye, and, if so, what would folks suggest? |
Mar 8th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
I'm REALLY impressed by Steve's edits! now my only problem is that I have many pictures of eiders and adult gulls and swans and other birds with blown-out white feathers that I now have to revisit and continue to edit... Thanks, Steve
Stan |
Mar 7th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
So are the eyes red, or is that a reflection of the dim flashlight? |
Mar 6th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
Jeffrey, if a flash were strong enough to bring out the upper wing feathers/coverts of the right wing and the upper tail, wouldn't it also wash out the head and the beautiful feathers of the left wing? I've never used a flash. |
Mar 6th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Comment |
Jeffrey, technically the shot is real strong. But those eyes! Did you edit them? I love the tension between its hugging the tree to its right yet looking suspiciously to its left. Its awareness of your menacing presence is totally expressed in those eyes.
Since my attention is totally on its face and hands, I played with the following crop. |
Mar 6th |
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| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Comment |
Well, here's where I seem to be, again, out of step. I really like the bokeh of the background and foreground. But I was hoping for some more feather definition (I do like the feathers that protrude from the sides of the bird, and the tail). It seemed to me that the back/mantle of the bird was soft. So I ran it through Topaz AI Sharpen, and it didn't work. I seem to have just introduced artifacts at the fringes of the mantle feathers, as well as around the top of its head. So take this as a suggestion of what not to do. |
Mar 6th |
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| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Comment |
Matthias I (almost) agree completely with Thorro. I love the way the strong lines of the image lead my eyes inward and upward. And the vibrant colors and reflections...!! My only suggestion, which it's too late to address, is (here's where I disagree with Thorro) is that for me the 1 second shutter speed smooths the water too much. As I stare at the water (under the sheets of ice) it's hard to tell that it's actually flowing - that it's not ice. Maybe if there were ripples in the water? |
Mar 6th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
In fact, Thorro, while blowing out the whites I've lost some beautiful green on the napes of these birds, as witnessed by |
Mar 6th |
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| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Reply |
Friends have agreed with you, Thorro. They suggest that when I'm shooting eiders and adult gulls and other birds with a lot of strong white I should turn down my exposure by several stops - solve the problem in my capture. I've been blowing out too much white in my capture. |
Mar 6th |
| 97 |
Mar 21 |
Comment |
Hi Thorro, That sure is one "robust" squirrel. I like the shallow depth of field which draws attention to its face and girth. My only concern is that I was distracted by the blue tint in its fur and in some of the twigs in the background. I warmed it up a bit in LR and did a global edit of removing some blue in the Calibration panel. |
Mar 6th |
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