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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Aw, shucks <<blushing>>
But thanks! Every little bit of encouragement helps :-)
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Jul 20th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Thanks, have added to my YT list!
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Jul 20th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Amazing! Keep the color, please. There is so much interest that would be lost in B&W (to me, anyway).
I liked the image as it was, but I see where Larry has improved it with the straight-line removal. And your brightening up the sky really makes everything else pop out.
Someday I am going to learn landscape photography. . .
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Jul 19th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
This is just stunning. I love the reflection -- it's perfect!
I am impressed that the blurry background comes up just to the lioness' body without detracting from her sharpness. Was that a Lightroom trick? It certainly makes her stand out more.
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Jul 19th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
OK, here it is: "awwwwwww!"
I loveloveLOVE baby shots! and these little ones are just gorgeous. They are fluffy and colorful, and very very sharp.
I'm jealous! Up here our rookeries are far off in the distance, sitting in the middle of a marsh or beaver wetland, and the glimpses we get of the babies are not always easy to capture. And they don't seem as colorful as your Florida birds. . .must be all that sun and warm weather. |
Jul 19th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Nice! You guys living down south have such beautiful birds! I love mama and her lotsa legs :-) and how she gets down real low on her bubble-gum legs to be closer to her babies.
I think I like the image just as it is (with usual newbie disclaimer). I hate to lose a good reflection, but I guess the little bit that is there in the photo is a good cut -- not too distracting but enough reflection to suggest a a nice clear light.
Is that a bit of rimlight on baby, showing off his juvenile fuzz?
Maybe I'm wrong, but that green grass blade. . .I know how to remove it!!! :-) |
Jul 19th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Thanks, everyone!
Here is the new and improved black crowned night heron. I lowered the background saturation, lowered the texture and sharpening of the background (so it would blur a little more) and darkened the background as well. I cropped it per Larry's suggestion, but in doing so it made the little reed poking up in front of its face more prominent, so I took a deep breath, opened up Photoshop, and removed it! <<feeling powerful right now, smirk>> |
Jul 19th |
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| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Poor little froggie! :-)
I like the image just the way it is. . .kinda sandwiched between the hyperfocal foreground and the blurry background. Colors are great, no burned out whites (my perenniel problem). I just like everything about it.
Yeah, maybe seeing more of the egret's eye would be nice, but then it would be a sideview portrait, like everybody else's. To me, the egret, though wonderfully exposed and showing off his breeding feathers, is a subject secondary to the frog, who is in a perfect profile, is nice and sharp, and has that "Oh noooooo!" look on its face (like Mr. Bill -- remember him?) -- and you got the catchlight in its eye!
Usual disclaimer -- I am a newbie who knows nothing about award-winning photographs, I just know what I like. :-) |
Jul 19th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
See? More good advice! :-)
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Jul 10th |
| 67 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Thanks, Larry. Pretty sure I was in Manual/auto iso. If that ISO is correct, then I should not have been at f/8, I could have done better at f/11 or even a bit higher. (John O thinks my penchant for manual is a bad habit that I need to break, he may be right!).
I don't know what that heron was doing out in the daytime, but if I get there in the late morning, he's always in the same spot. Sometimes he flies off to a smaller marsh about a half mile aaway, but he always returns; I'm thinking there's a nest somewhere in the tall reeds and grasses.
I've invited Photoshop over for peace talks. . .it's been a struggle of late with unexplained program crashes. But I think I have that issue solved; now I can get back to trying to understand its quirks and secrets. :-)
I'll post a re-crop later on. Thanks always for your suggestions. They are always good ones.
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Jul 9th |
8 comments - 2 replies for Group 67
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