Activity for User 419 - Dr Isaac Vaisman - ivaisman@bellsouth.net

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4	Sep 21	Comment	Ian, great golden hour light. I like the full length of the reflection, agree with cloning out the bird and the bright little rock, agree with the presence of the cargo ship that justifies the lighthouses. I believe this is the same lighthouse you presented in March 2021 at an earlier hour and on a low tide. It is sharp, and the composition is simple but great.	Sep 15th
4	Sep 21	Comment	Erik, very colorful display of light at Niagara Falls. I visited the falls, but on the Canadian side (from Toronto) but during the day, so I missed this spectacle. The colors in the sky and the lighted buildings complement the image. It is sharp. The flow of water/mist from the left to the right is just wonderful. Great image.	Sep 14th
4	Sep 21	Comment	Vella, good capture of the jaguar, and obviously your camera renders a large file which allows a considerable crop as shown. I am going to play devils advocate to the image. I appreciate and commend all the good intentions of Gary and Guy to improve the image and make the jaguar stand out. If you put all three images together on a white background, there is only a very small difference on the upper background (jaguar's tail). It is very difficult to separate the jaguar from the competing background of the same color	Sep 14th
4	Sep 21	Comment	Guy, this is a different IR interpretation and from a different vantage point from the one you presented last month. I like this B&W version more. The tonal range is perfect. It is very sharp, and I fixed a couple of composition details: I made the horizon line horizontal, and cropped slightly one of the tips of the roofs in the foreground as mentioned by Gary. Great image indeed.	Sep 14th
4	Sep 21	Comment	Bill, you are now becoming an unconventional photographer honing your skills with the iPhone and the Drone. This image's vantage point of the Drone is just at the right height making the lighthouse stand out, as well as the red tops of the buildings. It is very sharp, and the colors are outstanding. I also agree with the comments stated about additional space beyond the white wall/fence, and the added ski done by Gary. The more I see your drone images, the more tempted to get one I am.	Sep 14th
4	Sep 21	Comment	Gary, each version presented has made the image more dramatic. I personally like the last one with Sharon's adjustments. It is always a great experience to photograph old and abandoned vehicles that have suffered the effects of the elements for years. Most of the times I would shoot these subjects using HDR bracketing since it renders a lot more details, as you did.	Sep 14th
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37	Sep 21	Comment	Helen, thank you for remembering Joe with your current image. Joe was the administrator of group 4 of which I have been a participant for many years. I also remembered him with my current image in group 4 (you all are invited to visit). You need to log in into your PSA account, go to the PSA Journal section and look for year 2018 to read Joe's article at the August 2018 issue, page 22 (you can download to your computer as a .pdf file) Your image is very colorful and shows a pletora of shapes and shades and showing the effects of the elements in a wall where time stopped in 1959 (Cuba ?)	Sep 19th
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58	Sep 21	Comment	Daniel, here we have two stories going on: the artistic represented by the painted white box with the mermaid, and balanced by the symmetric non painted one with just the number 197; and the action going on at the seashore given by the girl standing on her hands and watched by the sitting one. The white boxes in addition are framing this action taking place. The image is sharp and the colors are well managed. Last but not least, the shovel balances the girls in the frame.	Sep 14th
58	Sep 21	Comment	Gloria, good action shot but the background is so dark and busy that obscures the presence of the skaters which are wearing dark outfits which makes it more difficult to separate them from the background. Perhaps you should have placed in the other side of the metal fence and closer to the skaters, however; not always possible. The girl with the pink outfit touching the frame, creates some tension, as is the standing man in the opposite side. Or perhaps the just balance each other. The fence undoubtedly is distracting.	Sep 14th
58	Sep 21	Comment	Dan, more than suspicious, the girl looks more like surprised by the movement of the plastic hands. Her face is almost completely blocked by the hand, and the presence of the adult looking away from you is complementary. The half amputated wheel in the background is slightly distracting, darkening it balances the opposite side darkness. It has some mystery as well.	Sep 14th
58	Sep 21	Comment	Bruce, this image is timely, and the selection of the sort of Sepia/Black and White interpretation suits it very well. It records for posterity the characteristics of the dinners back then. It has good DOF and it is sharp.	Sep 14th
58	Sep 21	Comment	Les, interesting image. I am sure that you had to make a quick decision as to where set up your vantage point. If you would have moved to the right of the boy to avoid the people in the background, you would have gotten the back of his head and miss the kiss. I am sure that if you would have gone instead to the left of the couple, would have included more of their faces but also there was the possibility that more people would be in the background. Oh well, this is a happy medium. It is sharp and it has nice colors.	Sep 14th
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72	Sep 21	Reply	Found this reference for all the species of HB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hummingbird_species	Sep 17th
72	Sep 21	Reply	Mary, beautiful slide show, not to mention the background music/lyrics. Thanks for sharing.	Sep 17th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Randy, thank you for all the info about photographing Hummingbirds. I was in Costa Rica in July of this year at The Osa Peninsula in Puerto Jimenez, but the light conditions and the rainy days made it difficult to get perfect Hummingbirds images. Obviously, you have almost perfected the technique using natural light. I have seen videos were flashes are set up with laser triggers to get the "perfect shot" but i am far from that. You presented image, the bird's body is sharp, and the wings show slight blur which confirms the rapid movement of them, so you need at least 1/2400 sec to freeze them (you did not state that info). I just reduced the brightness of the background, and makes the bird stand out better.	Sep 14th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Marie, good close up (long lens macro) of the dragonfly. They are pretty cooperative with the photographers if you do not come too close. I have photographed them at the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Lotus Gardens in Washington DC when I visit my son. You positioned yourself so that the background would not be distracting and obtained a pretty uniform one. Because of the magnum crop done you have lost some of the fine detail including the eyes. As Walt mentioned you would need to do photo stacking to get the fine details, critter permitting. I always set up myself so I get one of the big leaves as uniform background. I am attaching an example shot at 400 mm	Sep 14th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Adrian, this image is indeed a portrait/Head shot of the Gannet. I tried to work on the overexposed area of the head, but it did not look right so I desisted. I did make some darkening of the background but it makes the bright areas more evident. The best part is that it is looking at you.	Sep 14th
72	Sep 21	Reply	Adrian, I think that the cooker and the window gives balance to the image and frame our vision towards the door in the back and being able to analyze every detail present.	Sep 13th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Walt, this is another HDR masterpiece giving us all the details present at the site. The colors are well managed and it is tack sharp. You even were able to show detail from the outdoors.	Sep 13th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Mary, I also did that workshop with Tim Grey a few years ago. The photography opportunities at the Palouse are endless. I like very much the contrast of the canola fields yellow with the wheat green. The best time to go up to tiptoe is before sunset. Your image is sharp, and the evident separation line is given by the different crops.	Sep 13th
72	Sep 21	Comment	Bruce, I am sorry to hear that you had to cancel your trip after one day. I just came back from Katmai National wildlife preserve in Alaska and from photographing the brown bears. Your image is so clean with no distracting elements and very sharp. We had seagulls all over and of course lots of water as well. The mother/cub relationship is so evident and natural, and some times annoying.	Sep 13th
72	Sep 21	Reply	Randy, actually I think that the saliva gives more drama to the action	Sep 13th
72	Sep 21	Reply	They look wet, that is probably the reason the fur looks that sharp.	Sep 1st
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