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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Reply |
Thanks Adrian - Safe travels! |
Feb 21st |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Reply |
Thanks Maria! |
Feb 21st |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Reply |
Thanks Bruce - I do shoot in raw (and only raw). Do you have a Photoshop tutorial that you like? I've been considering taking the course offered by the wildlife photographer Jan Wegener. |
Feb 21st |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Hi Maria - Like Isaac and Bruce, I love the simplicity and story-telling of your image. |
Feb 17th |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Bruce,
Thanks so much for taking the time to edit my photo and make these suggestions! I love the dreamy look that your edits provide. I've never used Photoshop - that's something I've been meaning to get around to learning, but haven't done so yet. Maybe the same things could be done in Lightroom Classic, which is what I've been using, but you've given me an extra incentive to play around in Photoshop.
I think the birds were a little sharper in my original than in the reduced sized JPEG that I uploaded. I'll try your editing technique out on my original. |
Feb 17th |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Maria - I love this image and perhaps sadly have no suggestions for improving it. My one question is whether you've done other crops of the same image. I love seeing the bird and its reflection but also wonder if the same original would serve for an enlarged image of the Avocet without the reflection. Another bizarre thing I might have tried had this been my image is flipping it vertically and presenting just the reflected bird. The posted original was too low res for producing a good version of this, but I posted here a low res version of what I mean. It's surreal and perhaps is not of interest, but there can be something eye-catching about seeing the somewhat distorted reflection presented as if it were the original. |
Feb 4th |
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| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Isaac - This is an extraordinary image. The similarities and the differences are striking: Some of the penguins are molting, others are not; some are facing forward, others are not, they all have the beautiful orange/yellow/blue markings. And the framing of the penguins is perfect. Similar to my question about Bruce's elephants, I'm curious about how the original scene looked and how you decided to concentrate on this group of birds. I assume there were lots of other penguins around, perhaps cropped out of the final image. This is an awesome grouping, but I wonder what, if anything, resulted in you focussing in on this group. |
Feb 4th |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Adrian - Thanks for this extraordinary image and for including the two originals. Very interesting to see the intermediate step between the original and final. The tonal similarity between the fish's body and the water, and that the fish stands out so well from the background is magical. And seeing the water spray and the trail that the fish's tail cuts in the water is just delightful. |
Feb 4th |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Comment |
Bruce - This is a gorgeous photo. While everything about it seems more or less perfect, I particularly like the framing of the elephants. I'm curious about how things looked in the scene at the time. Were there lots of other elephants around and did you consciously decide to focus on this group? Did you crop others out in the post processing? Seeing this group clustered together with so many of them seemingly looking right into the camera is such a treat. |
Feb 4th |
| 72 |
Feb 25 |
Reply |
Thanks Bruce! I agree the birds are not as sharply focused as I would have liked. For most of my photography, I have used a cropped sensor camera - the Canon R7. But I recently acquired a full frame camera - a Sony Alpha 1, Mark II. I'm quite excited about it, but confess to having difficulty with the autofocus. My keeper rate for birds in flight is still pretty low. I'm hoping to figure it out soon! |
Feb 3rd |
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