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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 2 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Shirley has pretty well nailed this one Harry. I do like the detail in the feathers and the bird’s coloration. I probably would have cloned out the dimple or at least tried to – I think in this case it would have worked pretty well and been an easy fix. The lower part of the lunch and his claw seems a little soft, but I’m just being picky – my attention on first glance goes right to his face. Very nice. |
Mar 3rd |
| 2 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Really nice one Shirley. Getting all eight hoofs airborne at once is pretty neat, and everything is so sharp. Colors couldn’t be better. I tried jumping the ISO on several hand-held bird shots recently, but overdid it and got a lot of grain – yours is real fine. I have a monopod but hardly ever use it. I’m sure you tried several shots at the track – did you try panning hand-held at the same camera settings to try to get some background blur – motion type shot? “Teletimer” in my view does kind of detract from the riders – you might try just cloning it out with the adjacent gray (I guess Harry did that) – should be easy to do. I don’t like to clone too much, but everyone is doing it these days. Great shot no matter what. |
Mar 3rd |
| 2 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Harry made a nice cropped attempt, and I agree with both him and Shirley on all the fine attributes within this image. I think I like the original shot better though - the carpets seem to me to crowd the sides too much and cropping tends to over elongate the view. I really liked your inclusion of the street and store fronts which, to me, add to the story line. Cropping isolated him too much in my estimation – probably would have been more powerful had you been able to get him farther to the right, walking in. Great facial expression – I think you did real well. I’d like to go to India. |
Mar 3rd |
| 2 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Yeah man, these boat shots are tough as I learned last month. The hull of your boat comes over loud and clear – nice reflection too, and I like the softness of the fog. However, to my eye the cabin and superstructure tend to be confused with the background trees and dockside posts, polls and ramp – especially in the area of the captain’s cabin. My eye searches as to where the boat ends and the dock picks up. Many professional photographers have used clutter or confusion very effectively as you are probably well aware – I hate to repeat, “clone this, crop that” etc., but I think the previous suggestions might be helpful. The most effective boat shots that I have taken are from a more frontal, quartering view, especially with the boat’s name shown – not always possible. That also often permits a portrait option to capture those nasty tall masts avoiding some of the dockside clutter, whereas a full length, such as this one, pretty much limits you to a landscape. |
Mar 3rd |
| 2 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Wow, there’s a lot of things hanging from the ceiling. I would like to crop this one in half (here I go cropping again) keeping the left side. I think you have some potential to isolate the nice reflections over there, and I think you did a very effective job with the camera support – looks pretty well focused to me. I know you had the ISO at 2000, but if your camera had the capability, and you had the time, I would have tried more shots at higher settings. Harry hit it, you get what you can with what you have at the time. |
Mar 3rd |
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