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

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4	Jul 24	Reply	Vella, the "sign" on top is a gigantic TV screen which displays the fight in real time for the people seating on the bleachers.	Jul 22nd
4	Jul 24	Reply	Gary, yes they will survive being fed by the mother. Occasionally one of the siblings would hurt the weakest link. The other option to survive is not to fall from the nest and become an alligator's snack.	Jul 9th
4	Jul 24	Comment	Guy, thank you !! and before anything, I hope you get full recovery ASAP. This is a lovely Iris, and well PP. Very sharp and good non distracting background. I did reduce the brightness and added a touch of texture and now we see a lot more detail in the flower.	Jul 8th
4	Jul 24	Reply	Gary, I do not think that removing the grasses is going to be an easy task.	Jul 4th
4	Jul 24	Reply	Probably not since everything is so far and little that detail is missing.	Jul 4th
4	Jul 24	Comment	Bill, who is your stage setup person ? This time the sink is completely out of place. What else could be more confusing than finding the sink hanging on a window's guard. Indeed the white sink dominates the image. Everything is super sharp and the B&W interpretation is very appropriate.	Jul 4th
4	Jul 24	Reply	Gary, check group 59. I have another image a little more intense.	Jul 4th
4	Jul 24	Comment	Ian, I can hear the roar of the engine and feel the strong vibrations indeed. Image is sharp and really denote high speed. The presence of the second boat in the back implies it is a race. Well done	Jul 2nd
4	Jul 24	Comment	Erik, Mom is feeding the kids in an orderly fashion, and there is no pandemonium of them trying to pick on each others eyes or the eyes on Mom in a desperate way. The image is very sharp, and the colors are well handled and not saturated. I find the green branch to be obstructing and distracting. There is enough information in the image for a tighter crop, still showing the essence of it.	Jul 2nd
4	Jul 24	Comment	Gary, indeed a busy class with a large group of people. You created the image at one peak of action where all the participants have a ball up with the right arm and in synchrony. Your vantage point gave you the opportunity to accomplish this which otherwise could not be obtained at ground level.	Jul 2nd
4	Jul 24	Comment	Vella, this is an interesting image given by the strong contrast in the B&W interpretation. Zebras tend to help each other in scratching their back. The image is sharp and the crop brings up the attention to the juxtaposition of the animals.	Jul 2nd
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15	Jul 24	Comment	Sarita, great capture. Nice environment. Image is sharp. Agree with previous comments. Nothing to add.	Jul 22nd
15	Jul 24	Comment	Gloria, welcome to our group. We do not see this variety of Gulls in Florida. I like that you created a high key image. The bird is sharp but the rock it is standing on overpowers the bird and takes away prevalence. I added some light to the shadows and cropped it. Some people may think that the out of focus flying birds are distracting. I do not.	Jul 4th
15	Jul 24	Comment	Jerry, the GBH is sharp but the grass in front of him is competing very strongly and taking away protagonism of the bird. Also, as a side note we do not see the complete legs. The black smudge on the left upper quadrant is also distracting as is the greenery on the water. Sometimes getting low helps to avoid some of these distractions, and of course, to walk the image until you do not include the grass if possible.	Jul 4th
15	Jul 24	Comment	Pei-Fan, this is a lovely image of a mother and chick interaction and the most important job of the mother which is to care and feed the little ones untill they fledge and can take care by themselves. Nice composition and colors. Image is sharp	Jul 2nd
15	Jul 24	Comment	Kathy, this is the first time I See this species of birds. I understand that they are originally from Africa, and are also known as Banana Eaters. It is amazing the variety of feathers colors. You capture it in a kind of interesting pose, showing off all the colors and looking at you to get your raection. Image is sharp.	Jul 2nd
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58	Jul 24	Comment	Pinaki, the image needs color. As presented, there is a lot of juxtaposition of images creating confusion. The image is sharp.	Jul 22nd
58	Jul 24	Comment	Sergio, great image which makes you wonder who is watching whom. It has a strong mysterious content given by the silhouette of the person with the umbrella. Everything is in context.	Jul 22nd
58	Jul 24	Comment	Bruce, I pretty much agree with the comments and Sergio's crop. I would not have tone down the colors. The original makes the image more vibrant.	Jul 22nd
58	Jul 24	Comment	Ed, as you said, people and animals are used to navigate even on a standing position and with no safe devices. I like the B&W as well as the color version, and I believe your crop is more as to include all the boat reflections in the water but creates a large empty space (at least to me). My crop would be as adjusted	Jul 2nd
58	Jul 24	Reply	Ed, I also did the B&W interpretation and forgot to upload, but yes it really adds interest to the image. I like the color version as well which shows the palette of colors of the delapidated and abandoned structures in Cuba since the revolution in 1959.	Jul 2nd
58	Jul 24	Comment	Kathleen, the real decisive moment in spite of the fact that the woman has her eyes closed, which makes the image more interesting. Good handling of the DOF being everything in focus. I made the verticals straight and darkened slightly the statue of the lion	Jul 2nd
58	Jul 24	Comment	Bev, I get your intention of recording the young lady while she is getting her pre-wedding photos, but she is looking completely away from the camera and sitting in a very illuminated area creating some degree of overexposure and lack of details of her dress. I have done the same but I try to move and be able to get the subject looking forward, not neccesarily to my camera but still we can get the whole face.	Jul 2nd
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59	Jul 24	Comment	Gerry, that is a real jump to say the least. Peak of action, Sharp. Thanks for the additional explanation about the basket.	Jul 23rd
59	Jul 24	Comment	Bruce, peak of action, low vantage point, non distracting background, sharp.	Jul 15th
59	Jul 24	Reply	Ronald, this is incredible. This guy lifted 500 kilos	Jul 15th
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59	Jul 24	Comment	Don, dancing is active body movement therefore a sort of a sport. She is lying down in a sort of a sexy pose. The stage illumination has a very strong pink-beige hue. I tried to correct it by the auto color and auto tone sliders in Photoshop. It improved some how but not completely to my taste, so using silver Effex I made it into B&W and now the image shows better the rim light and contrast. Also made the horizonthal straight	Jul 15th
59	Jul 24	Comment	Ronald, thank you for the elaborated explanation since without it, it is an image of a bunch of men trying to get or defend the ball. First time I hear about Australian Rules, and it is pandemonium on the field. Image is sharp and the player with the ball stands out over the buch.	Jul 3rd
59	Jul 24	Comment	Hans, this indeed is a different vantage point. We are used to see flying planes taken from below. Agree with Ronald that it seems you are also in another plane at the same level. The plain is sharp, and the propellers show movement.	Jul 3rd
59	Jul 24	Reply	Ronald, visit Group 4. There is another image from the same venue. The ISO was already @ 8000.	Jul 3rd
5 comments - 3 replies for Group 59
72	Jul 24	Comment	Chris, beautiful image, sharp and with nice colors. I thisnk that a tighter crop makes the bird stand out better eliminating empty space, and still preserving the natural environment.	Jul 27th
72	Jul 24	Reply	Maria, this also works for me	Jul 17th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Heather, I find this image full of triangles formed by the wood and the water, and the presence of an odd number of turtles also forming a triangle, all of which make the image very dynamic. I do not mind that the turtle in the background is not completely sharp and looking away from the frame.	Jul 17th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Barbara, it is always very rewarding to be able to photograph these critters in real life and environment. The bee is very sharp. I find a yellow hue on the bee which makes it less relevant. I did crop the image tighter to make it stand out and removed the yellow hue as well.	Jul 9th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Adrian, great interaction between mama Grebe and the young which already is enjoying mama's catch. We do not see this variety of Grebe in the USA. I saw it once in Island. Mama's reflection enhances the image. Good crop.	Jul 9th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Maria, great vantage point and your settings captured the crab in focus, and everything else, out of focus. It is sharp. Nice colors. I agree with Bruce about cropping, but this is my iteration, giving a little more space to its front.	Jul 9th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Here is Mama Bear and her Three coming towards us. It is a screen capture from a video in my iPhone	Jul 9th
72	Jul 24	Comment	Bruce, indeed the amount of brown bears that we can see at Katmai National Park in Alaska is impressive. They are so busy catching salmon which are in abundance that they just do not care about us humans. In fact; in our visit one mama bear brought her three cubs near us since she new that other male bears would not come close because of us and the cubs would be safe, and she went on to catch more salmon. We did not get to go to Brooks Falls since the waiting time to use the photography platform was two years. Go and figure Your image is at peak of action. It is sharp. I think that the edge is to close and creates some tension. Using the magic of Generative function in photoshop, I added some real state to the front.	Jul 9th
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