Activity for User 233 - Guy Davies - guy-davies@gdpix.co.uk

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4 Jan 19 Reply Joe, I completely agree with your comment on the image as shown. However, there is detail in the shadow on the original so maybe I should have lightened it a bit for the web presentation. In fact, all the dark areas are better in the original. Also, maybe I should have put a 1 pixel white line around the image to separate it from the black background of the display. I'll try to remember in futurre. Jan 14th
4 Jan 19 Comment Congratulations on being asked to provide lots of your excellent images. This is a super shot showing the behaviour of these birds. If he is showing off, she doesn't seem very interested though! Maybe she's just playing hard to get. Anyway, it works very well because of the isolation created by the shallow depth of field of the long lens, and also because of the low viewpoint. Jan 11th
4 Jan 19 Comment Bill, you have achieved a lovely 'old master' painting effect which is very attractive. Was there a reason for missing the left hand corner off the table? Jan 11th
4 Jan 19 Comment Isaac, that is an amazing tree! I can't imagine what kind of external influences made it grow like that. It's definitely worth a photograph, but it is clearly not easy to get an uncluttered view of it. I think the surrounding area is a bit light and thought it might be darkened. I wondered about using a vignette to do this but in the end felt that just darkening overall could add to the impact. (I did wonder about flipping it, but thought that might be a move too far....!!!)
I tried to upload a darkened version but I'm having problems - there's been a Windows 10 update - say no more!		 Jan 11th
4 Jan 19 Comment He looks very sad! I guess he wasn't though if he was part of the big occasion. He is pin sharp and well exposed. Your cutting out looks to have been very well done, although some blurred brown bits on the RHS of his head look like they might be some bits of wayward hair. If they were coloured like the nearby background area they would blend into invisibility. Nice choice of background. Jan 11th
4 Jan 19 Reply Hi Isaac. Thanks for the nice comments. I took the first shot at zero compensation and reviewed the image. I saw that the main part was well exposed with nothing going into dead black. However, the lamp at top left was hopelessly blown out so I took a couple of extra shots at -2 and -4 just to capture the detail in the lamp. I guess the camera exposure meter worked out that the important part of the image was the doorway. Jan 11th
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