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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Thanks everyone for your thoughtful coments. I had a great trip shooting birds in FL!! I'll be sharing those for my April submission. Looking forward to your comments on those. |
Mar 27th |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Alan, I was out in the sou5west several years ago and was blown away with the yellow aspens. Thanks for recalling a memory for me! The photo is well exposed. I see a powerful triangle that starts in the upper right corner and moves diagonally through the picture towards the lower right corner, but alas the triangle got clipped. Perhaps use a wider angle lens like less than 20mm or shoot several shots and merge them in lrc to create a pano. |
Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Craig, I'm just finishing a trip to the various wetlands near Orlando. The exposure for white birds is to me always the toughest. You handled it beautifully. I think you might think of a different title to reflect what might be the story here. Something like"a disagreement." My other suggestion woukd be to provide more room on the left edge. The left bird's beak is almost touching the edge of the photo. |
Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Cindy, this one is all about texture. You got great light on the lizard that shows off the wonderful texture of its skin! Great stuff! My only suggestion for improvement woukd be to give the lizard more room on the top and lift. Visually that woukd give the viewer room to imagine the lizard moving into that empty space. That coild be accomplished after the fact by increasing canvas on the top and left in ps, and then letting ps fill in the extra space with content aware technology. |
Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Thanks for your comments. Yah I wondered about how many of those branches ought to remain, especially that one right next to his breast. |
Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Morrie,
I'm envious of your trip to Monument VAlley! It's on my list for sure! The highlight of this image is the star burst from the sun over one of those iconic peaks! You have the two peaks well positioned so that your eye moves from the back peak to the front on and of course to the star burst! Great composition! My only suggeston might be to reduce your shutter speed to something like 1/250. That would allow you to use a lower ISO. But having said that, I see next to no noise. Well done! |
Mar 6th |
5 comments - 1 reply for Group 49
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| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Cindy, yes you are right that I applied a vignette that is perhaps unnecessary. I like allowing the sky to go white for a high key look. I'm getting to like that effect more! |
Mar 18th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Thanks for the clarification Cindy. Love to have been at that location! |
Mar 7th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Bud,
I'm about to head for the ocean coast of FL this coming week. I've got to keep in mind unusual poses like this! The exposure is spot on. It would be easy for your camera to get fooled by all that dark forest behind the bird. The sharpness of the feathers is excellent! My only suggestion for improvement would be to darken the backgroud further to let the bird jump out at us. |
Mar 6th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Butch,
An amazing story! Like you I had the pleasure of seeing one of these magnificent animals in the wild, but I did not get this pose! Wow! Those eyes are riveting! The background falls off in sharpness, just as you would like. Great shot especially on short notice! |
Mar 6th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Larry,
I always love your nature stories! Like you and Butch, I have seen a bobcat in the wild just a few times, but have not gotten a shot of one.
I like the intensity of the look and pose of the bobcat! I'm OK with a partial animal. Think of it as a portrait. Do we always go for portraits of people full length? No, we find just the chest up to be fine. Same with animals. I like what butch did to clean up the area in front of the nose. I'd extend that treatment to reduce the highlights on that frond in front of the bobcat. |
Mar 6th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Cindy,
How lucky you were to see this animal behaviour! Thanks for sharing the back story with us. The image is sharp on the animals and well exposed. You got great definition of the eye on the adult penguin. The gull harassing the chick is a great story. I had trouble telling what was going on without the benefit of your description. The gull and chick tend to merge. I also had trouble trying to figure out what the gull was stealing. He/she was not going to make off with the chick, right? |
Mar 6th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Greg,
I also really liked this shot! The image is impactful! We know what's going on here! I agree with butch that the upper left corner is bright and takes my eye away from the lion and the meal. You can easily darken that area. I also agree that I wish you had given us more context. I thought that the overall sharpness was acceptable. |
Mar 6th |
| 67 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Butch for your thoughts. My thinking in giving the viewer 5 birds was to show 3 birds with fully spread out wings and the top and bottom ones with folded wings. My goal was to get a sharp image of birds in flight, which for these birds, seemed to work at 1/2000 sec. For smaller quicker birds I will need to shoot at a fast speed. |
Mar 6th |
5 comments - 3 replies for Group 67
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10 comments - 4 replies Total
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