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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
Thank you Candy. |
Jul 15th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
Thanks Pierre.
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Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
Very nice pose on the deer with good eye contact. They are in a clearing which is also nice. Too bad they are shadowed facing the camera, but the backlight through the fawns ears is nice. I like the use of the foreground fern. Nothing in the image is overexposed considering the woodland setting with light through the trees. Overall, a very nice shot. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
I agree with Mervyn on not cloning it out. Maybe you could vignette that area some more to make it less prominent. I can see why Brenda mentioned it. Darkening that area might make it recede rather than jump forward. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
I like that you captured the insects. It gives some context and story to the image. I think the horizon line should be lowered some so it is not as close to center. Also the tree is too prominent rather than playing a supporting or framing position in the composition. Your insects would gain more importance if when you shot the image, the tree was more framing rather than such a strong focus. I think the focus is more about the sky drama and colors. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
It is a nice image of the blackbird. The pose is wonderful and the background well muted. It is the right contrast with the bird, darker would flatten the image. I do think there is too much magenta in the image. The stick perch looks a bit unnatural. That hue is also showing up in the background. If it were in the sky at sunrise, I might say it would reflect, but it looks like it came through exposure editing. Did it? |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
If you are on FB, search for Milky Way groups. You will get all the reliable info you ever need for shooting.
They are extremely helpful in the two groups I am in, and their images are top shelf. You did a nice job at those settings. Maybe use one of your darker shots to blend in a darker sky though. I like your composition. It does seem more about the rock in the foreground though with the less contrasting sky. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
Thanks Rob. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
Thank you. |
Jul 8th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
Oh also, you might drop in a line or herd of say backlit silhouetted elephants along the horizon line (at the sun glow) for added interest. It could make it a wall hanger. The edit I did was less than a minute, and I have no shots of elephants, but had the file not been so compressed and small, the edit would have looked more smooth. Dark images are really hard to edit once on the web. |
Jul 6th |
| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Comment |
I do like the simplicity of your image with trees dotting the horizon. I think you could bump up the drama in the scene though by increasing the depth of tone and vignetting the image. Selectively lighten and warm the center of the image for focus. I might have shot lower for a different and POV. Also slight adjustment of the horizon to make more level. |
Jul 6th |
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| 69 |
Jul 18 |
Reply |
Thank you Brenda. It is approximately the distance above as below in the composition. The weight of the image is at the bottom, so you don't want that above weighing down on or compressing the subject. It is breathing room in an already tight image and far outside rule of thirds if going by that for the head and eye placement. While most camera clubs like the image tightly cropped and reward it accordingly, it is another thing many wildlife pros abhor for the most part. This would be considered too tightly composed in their opinion, even for a portrait. It may be suggested to crop it horizontally to show more of where the subject makes its living. As you know it was on my FB page and I alway crop close tightly for visual impact there. Here is how they would crop this image. It is also unedited so I might do some editing in the lower corners to remove bright spots. |
Jul 6th |
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