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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Good job. I agree with the painterly effect of this image. However I find this image a little bit unbalanced. Good focus, and very good post production. But to me the image shows clearly like you used a painted (almost) studio background since the proportion of the foreground image is bigger than one used in the background. I believe that the man image on a neutral background could be very interesting as well. |
Aug 16th |
| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Marge nice capture of this horse, that shows the power and energy that these animals are capable of. I like the way you composed the image I only made a small minor adjustments to the light, I thought your image was a little bit in need of some more light. |
Aug 16th |
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| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
All the elements in this image are at the proper place. The composition is good, the light good as well as the colors. I chose a bit more tight cropping, nothing much but just enough to make the bug standing out a bit more. Nice job Kerstin. |
Aug 16th |
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| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
I like this pastoral scene, very well composed. My only observation is about the color Saturation and Vibrance, I attached an image I corrected accordingly and it might explains better what I mean. Nothing else. Nice capture. |
Aug 16th |
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| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Gerhard, why do not organize a workshop on shooting birds fishing? You are a master we need to learn from people like you. This is another of the great shots that you make us enjoy every month. This is another perfect shoot just the way it is no matter what you did before of after the shooting. Tell us the truth Gerhard, do you feed these birds before you go there shooting? :))))) A friend of mine used to go and feed fish before going fishing. Keep up with this great job. |
Aug 16th |
| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Thank you all for your qualified comments, very much appreciated. Marge you probably won't be able to enlarge much the images since the posted ones are small file with a maximum size of 1 Mb. and the web site probably will not allow any enlargement. If you like I can send to you the original file to take a better look of the image. The other comment about the background of the image. You guys know better, in the wild you can't choose the background, you can't tell the animal, whatever it might be, "hey move over here, please," What-You-See-What-You-Get" done. It is your problem then to make the image acceptable. Also, very important is the fact that in that harsh environment each living creature depends on the other guy for food to survive. Like the arctic fox depends on birds and their eggs for food. The polar bear depends on foxes for food. These animal have a terrific way at camouflage themselves, as you can see from this picture. We were a group of 10 people, I had the bird in my viewfinder, I know he was ready to flight off and as soon the noise from the group raised because they saw the bird he sped off leaving everybody to scratch their heads for the missed shot. Yes it was very hard to see but thats the beauty of taking picture in the wild. As far as changing/blurring the background, the PSA has a set of guideline that are standard in the world of photography and accepted by all international photo organizations we know of. I encourage everybody to read them (are in the www.psa-photo.org) read them carefully. Very important. And beside, I'm not a fan of radical manipulation. I'm an old (in many senses) school photography. As much as I can I compose the image in my camera, PS and LR are tools to improve what I'm done before when shooting. Not change the file after. There are photo categories just for that. In this specific image I'm very satisfied with what I got. An 8.5x11 print shows perfectly this image, without changing anything. See you next month. Happy Summer. |
Aug 16th |
| 38 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Well, I was ready to replay to Art but I can include Gerhard as well. Thank both for the comments, always welcome and well accepted. However this time I beg to differ. I would not crop the image like you did. The original was composed strictly following the "third " rule in a 6x9 format and reason was just because the bird taking off to the right in my opinion needs space. So it doesn't look is in a cage. Also, I personally prefer my choice of colors vivid and bright. Last but not least, yes you're right, I adjusted the eye. Those birds, there, all have black eyes, on black plumage therefore eyes are hard to pop up. Just enlarge the image and you'll see what I mean. 😉
Thank you for the comments!! |
Aug 9th |
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