Activity for User 217 - Dennis Hirning - dchirning@msn.com

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1 Jun 22 Reply There were honks in the area since there were lots of geese between me and the dock but they quack instead of honk. :)
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1 Jun 22 Comment It looks like the "threads" are reflections in water drops to me but they could be removed anyway. I think it is a great capture and you sharpening method works well. The out of focus leaf might be toned down a little so it would draw less attention. Jun 20th
1 Jun 22 Comment The image illustrates your story well. I do like seeing this as a panorama. If possible, you might have given them a little more room to move into on the left. It does seem to be underexposed by about a stop and a half according to the Sunny 16 rule, if anyone pays any attention to that any more. A shutter speed around 1/1000 sec. would still have stopped the action and given better detail in the shadow areas. Jun 20th
1 Jun 22 Comment That is a difficult task for a photographer. I like the contrast and the competing butterflies but there can be lots of distracting items close to your subject. Something that I might be tempted in situations like this, is to do something like Bev suggested but my style would have been to work over the background and keep it behind the butterflies. If you had a polarizing filter with you that could have helped to remove the highlights in the leaves. Jun 20th
1 Jun 22 Comment The bird is well placed in the composition and I like that it is placed so it is looking into the scene. I'm not familiar with Snapseed but to me this looks somewhat over sharpened but that could be because of the low resolution. Can you saturate the greens a little more to draw more attention to your subject? Jun 20th
1 Jun 22 Comment I really like the wake and the way it toward the tall buildings. The low sun really brings out the detail in the water. I am not sure about the bright reflection. It does tend to balance the wake but it does draw my eye away from it. It would probably take a lot of work to try cloning it out and still make it look natural. Jun 20th
1 Jun 22 Comment The detail in your subject and the leaf really make it for me. I vote to get rid of the spots. They might be the same color but there is no other smooth texture like that and the eye right out of the image. I think just figured out what caused that. They are holes in the leaf and you see out of focus light behind it. Something that you might try is a little soft vignetting to darken the edges and push the viewer towards your subject.
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1 Jun 22 Comment Thanks. I did think that the splashing in the water was part of the story but I could have cropped in closer and still told the story. Jun 19th
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