Activity for User 150 - Sharon Prislipsky - sharp71909@gmail.com

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4 May 25 Comment The long sweeping curve draws me right into the scene. Also in my opinion the triangle in the foreground is a strong compositional element as it points the viewer right to the curve which is the center of attention. I think the image is tack sharp edge to edge. My only suggestion would be to consider cropping a bit form the top. There is too much sky for my taste. May 2nd
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52 May 25 Reply Thanks, Tom. I used your suggstion along with Mike's and I think you two have helped me improve this image. May 23rd
52 May 25 Reply You are correct, but sadly no can do fo Nature. Incidentally I tired it just to see if I might be able to use this image for PID or Print...it was harder to make a clean removal than I thought it would be because of how busy the background is. May 23rd
52 May 25 Reply Yes, that is permitted and I followed up on it. Thank you for the suggestion. May 23rd
52 May 25 Comment Perfect! Print it and put it on your wall! The silhouette is very dramatic and creative. I would not change a thing. May 14th
52 May 25 Comment Judith, I am a big fan of images that present flowers in classical soft focus. But personally, I think some part of the image - perhaps just a small area - needs to be in focus. In this image it looks to me like the part that is in focus is the green on the left. But I do not think that is meant to be the center of interest. The center of interest in my opinion is the pistels and stamen. That is the part I would like to see in focus. With the focusing system of the R5 it is easy to select your focal point in life view using the touch screen. But you pretty much need to be on a tripod.
Given your personal style, I wonder if you have considered Lensbaby? They are wonderful creative lenses that allow lots of special effects for floral photograpy and they are relatively inexpensive. However, they are manual lenses so no autofocus. I would suggest you look at the work of Janie Konarski Davidson, New Life Photos. You can find her on FB and her website is www.newlifephotos.com.		 May 14th
52 May 25 Comment I wondered why it is called a Goldfinch. A finch no doubt but I don't see gold. So I looked it up and discovered that in flight there is a broad band of bright yellow gold running the length of the wing. I hope you got to see it in flight.
I like the tilt of the head and you have captured some light in tihe eye which makes it look very life-like. 		May 14th
52 May 25 Comment It is easy for me to see why those bright red legs captured your attention. They really pop against a fairly monchromatic background. Two things that occure to me as I study this image: 1.) there is too much real estate on the right and maybe also at the top. The surf is the brightest part of the image so it draws my eye away fro the bird, and the water is soft with not much detal. Of course, since we do not see the original I no way of knowing if you enough pixels to crop, but I think a tighter crop would be helpful; and 2.) Except for the legs and maybe the beak, the image appears flat to me. I would suggest darkening the background to separate the gray bird from the gray rock and then perhaps adding a bit of contrast to the bird. May 14th
52 May 25 Comment I think you have captured a strong nature story. I wonder how those chicks are going to be able to ingest that fish? Maybe Mom will chop it up with her beak?
This crop puzzles me because it leaves the adult's leg unattached to anything - just sticking up there. I thought it was a branch until I compared it with the original. So, while I like the intimacy of the crop, for me the origianal works better. My other thought is that some burning of the sticks and twigs in the nest would improve the image. They are preety bright and take my attention away from the chicks.		 May 14th
52 May 25 Comment Good for you for capturing three (odd numbers are somehow more visually appealing in compositions) and all relatively sharp. In my option a bit of burning on the lower edges of the birds to open up the shadows would improve the image. As I study the image I also think it would be interesting to play with saturation and luminosty of the blue sky. It is such a vibrant color I feel it takes away from the cranes. For me the tone of the sky in the original works better. May 14th
52 May 25 Comment Judith, I believe you are correct. The bird in back not as sharp overall. I went back to the unedited RAW file and it clearly is not as sharp as the male which is in front. I think that the eye on the thumbnail of the orginal as posted here is so small that eye may look sharper, but I do not think it is. My focus point was on the eye of the male. For nature, a strong story may outweigh a minor flaw and I am hoping that will be the case with this image. May 14th
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