Activity for User 267 - Stan Bormann - snbormann@gmail.com

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19 Jul 20 Comment I think the image needs the bee and the yellow parts of the flower tack sharp with good detail. With f/22 on a 50mm lens, you might be able to get what you needed,but this is a large deep flower, so perhaps not. Not sure what you spot metered on, but that bee is much darker than anything else in the image, so that might explain that. I like the soft white petals surrounding the heart of the flower. Jul 14th
19 Jul 20 Comment I really like your symmetric composition. I think I would like the flower to be sharper. While you purposely overexposed a bit, that worked well because what you wanted to be exposed is properly exposed. I don't know if you lost some sharpness with the long shutter speed, or needed a more closed down aperture to obtain more depth of field. You were on a tripod, but I wonder if there was some camera shake. Did you have a wireless trigger or perhaps use a 2 sec delay? Some cameras now can go to silent with no shutter to cause vibration. Jul 14th
19 Jul 20 Comment A wonderful capture of a bird that we seldom see in photography. Well done. The leaves close to the bird's plane are in good focus with the background leaves and flowers soft. I like the depth the image shows. Detail of the bird is excellent. I don't know if you have one where the tail is not clipped a bit, but that seems pretty minor. Jul 14th
19 Jul 20 Comment I think the loss of detail in the highlights on the left are very detrimental to this image. The original seems to have good detail in that area. I think you should go back and reprocess this image to retain those details. It does seem to be a good capture. I am wondering what you used to take this image. I think SnapSeed is still only on mobile phones, but they don't have 180mm lenses. Perhaps I don't understand what you are saying. Jul 14th
19 Jul 20 Comment The little yellow flowers significantly enhance the image in my opinion. I don't know what an unshorn alpaca looks like, but I like them the way they are. I think the alpaca in the background is important, it adds depth, interest and seems to give balance. Both heads are close to the edge, but the foreground animal is looking to the right where there is plenty of room and I don't think the background animal matters that much. Nice image, no suggestions. Jul 14th
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64 Jul 20 Comment This is a great image. I hadn't figured out what it was until I read the title, then as a former sailer, I wondered why I hadn't figured it out. I think that intrigue of figuring it out is part of the strength of the image. Very nice composition and great monochrome conversion. The reflectivity or whatever of the anchor is great. The filter application was excellent. Print it, frame it and hang it. Jul 14th
64 Jul 20 Comment I personally think the original presentation leans to the right a bit. That would tend to say the camera was not level right to left. If you tip the camera up from level you will get a perspective distortion. It is a sure thing. In this case, I think the "slight vertical correction" took it out. I think we have discussed before when to take out perspective distortion. I like to take it out when it looks like there should be none. I like to point the camera at something at the same level as my camera to prevent it in this case. When a camera is tipped up significantly I expect it and prefer to have it left in, or at least some of it. Interesting story about the darker top of the building. Jul 14th
64 Jul 20 Reply Now that Loon Chick season is over, I need to send my 100-400 in for work. It is way too hard to zoom it. The butt shot of the chick was unfortunate, but I thought the rest of the shot justified using it. Pretty hard to get that chick to look at me instead of that minnow. All three of the season's chicks on Lake Ada are no longer with us. Probably the eagles got them, but there is no way to tell. Some think one of the nest's chicks were lost in a loon fight because there was a wounded adult left around. It is a risky life out there. Jul 14th
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