Activity for User 198 - Craig Callan - ccallan@his.com

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49 Sep 22 Reply Yeppers, that's what it needed. Sep 19th
49 Sep 22 Reply Dicky, you probably don't have a lot of herons in Hong Kong, but their major dynamic is just standing there. They will sit still watching the water beneath them for long periods of time until they see a small fish, and they then eat it.
I don't agree with the comments about darkening the background. My inspiration in this picture is classic Chinese brush painting, which feature detailed birds against dead white backgrounds, with a few lightly sketched reeds. Now that I see it rendered as a jpeg, I will lighten the background in my competition print.		 Sep 19th
49 Sep 22 Comment Thanks for the comments, guys, BTW, I'm off tomorrow for the PSA Photo Festival in Colorado Sprrings. If you're there, call or message xx301xx787xx9316xx (X's added for security) and we'll get together. Sep 18th
49 Sep 22 Comment I think that this scene just cries out for a panorama. Take the camera dow to afew inches above the mud, the make a panorama. This will compress the distance between the puddles, and make the birds seem closer and more detailed. Sep 18th
49 Sep 22 Comment I'm going with the group here. But I would hupe that a little work with Lightroom masking and an exposure adjustment would help you sort this out. Sep 18th
49 Sep 22 Comment I agree with Josh that we want a bigger lighthouse. You can imagine that lighthouse keeper lived a terribly lonely life, especially in the days before TV and the Internet. But such a small lighthouse seems unreal, like something in a model train layout. Sep 18th
49 Sep 22 Comment Works well, but leave the tower/sensor spots/guy looking at valley (my first impression) in. It gives us all something to think anout and plays with our sense of scale.
My personal preference would be to crop a little more tightly, so that the aspen got a little bigger and gave itself some visual weight.		 Sep 18th
49 Sep 22 Comment It's hard to do a good silo, and I'm not sure that the stark black type against the whit background helps this busy layout. Could you have simply overlaid some white text on the photo to keep the impact? Sep 18th
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