Activity for User 460 - Lisa Cuchara - photographer67@comcast.net

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41 Feb 24 Comment wow, Nadia, this is awesome! It just love it!Copyright this -- it would be really cool to sell! hope that their aprents have a 30x40 of this hanging in the home.

Please tell us what you did to to create the ring/portal It also seems to have symbols/constellaaaround the edge.

Two small things to improve
the nearest gandson, the back of his sweater has a lot of light on it and it seems like the light is more coming from the front of him
and tone down the san just a tad.
Feb 6th
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44 Feb 24 Reply Thank you Don, I appreciate the opinion. FYI, the clouds were not replaced, they were stacked in-camera using live composite (like stacking stars in lighten blend mode over time). They were the same clouds without being stacked over the long exposure.

Interesting, two for and two against the cloud stacking. I personally love cloud stacking, personal taste, I am so addicted to the artitic rendering of the clouds. When cloud stacking was presented at NECCC it was standing room only for all of her sessions.

Thank you!		 Feb 20th
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46 Feb 24 Comment Flamingos are so mcuh fun to photograph, and they have such artistic appeal.

The composite idea allows us to see the spotlighted bird and have the story of the other two flamingos in the background.

To improve: there seesm to be some cyan hapeneing at the eye
and the top of the head the feathers seem cloned in a way that doesn't aling. 		Feb 14th
46 Feb 24 Comment Wow, great capture, wonderful action, and great PP. The head and eye are sharp and lots of detail despite the big crop.

There seems to be a tad too much white on its feathers where the leg attached to the body.

Question -- why not just go the rest of the way and remove the last branches,LOL		 Feb 14th
46 Feb 24 Comment Cool capture, that is one really long stick!

Thank you for the detailed explanation of PP :-)

The leaves frame the bird well. You removed the leaves that were closet to the bird to allow for good framing.

The PP adds an art feel to the image.

I would have identified this a Great Blue Heron not a "Great White Heron" -- it looks pretty characteristic of a Great Blue, especially in the original, even without seeing the face...would love to know more.

I love going to "Magnolia Swamp Garden, Charleston, SC"		 Feb 14th
46 Feb 24 Reply "I also tried to work on the neck area but to no avail."
in what software?

like did you mask it and if so were there two masks, one for the subject and one for luminance? I hope someday PSA can expand this so we can get the RAW files...		 Feb 14th
46 Feb 24 Comment Hi Jack, The cropping really made the reflection POP, well done! The reflectiona dn the fish in its beak are just wonderful!

white birds, especially against a darker background, are very hard to exposure fo. In this case the bird weas also smaller in the frame, which makes the live histogram less useful. It is very easy to blow out the highlights. Sometimes there is enough for me with a white bird to try some exposure adjustments for the white.
Feb 14th
46 Feb 24 Comment I love the low camera angle, it creates an intimate interaction with the bird (What kind of heron?)

The exposure on the bird is good, it would have been easy to underexpose it as the camera could have been easily folled by all of the lighter background.

I would darken the OOF bottom area just slightly.

I would suggest trying to wait until the bird turns its head toward you. I know that we don't always have that apportunity, but I have learned to take one and then wait/wait/wait 		Feb 14th
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