You can count on my interest as well.
Gregory, thanks for the cogent explanation of how to know the difference between blue heron youngsters and egrets. I appreciate that!
What is it about the bird that tells you this is an immature blue heron rather than an egret? I am not challenging your ID, just wanting to learn. Thanks.
I would crop out the light building on the left margin. It's columns seem absolutely vertical, while the remainder of the photo needs to have its horizon straightened. Getting rid of that building will allow you to straighten the photo without introducing jarring non - vertical lines along the side of the photo, where they would be unsettling. Further more, that building adds nothing to the composition and arguably distracts the eye because of its relative brightness. You might then also consider cutting the pole from the picture for the same reasons you took out the wires on which you did a very good job. I wouldvprefer a saturation level about half way between your two examples.
Nice. I like the idea of the border, although I might thin it just a twitch.
My go-to author for anything Photoshop or Lightroom is Martin Evening. He is quite thorough and detailed with a writing style that is easy to read but makes no attempts to be humorous like Kelby does, which I personally find annoying and disruptive when trying to learn.
Before I had looked at the second photo I felt that the first one had an overall blue color cast. I think you did a very good job of turning this into a much more pleasing image.
Until recently, my Pro 9000 -- which I have loved and which I bought in 2008 -- performed beautifully. Suddenly, I am getting no Cyan. None. Zip. Nada. I have cleaned the print head a number of times without solving the problem. So, I have come to believe -- with phone input from the gentleman who owns Precision Colors -- that the problem is not with the print head but is electrical.
I have purchased a Pro 100, which means I now have two of them, and in one of them I will be trying Precision Colors, using that printer for trial prints.
Shortage of space requires that I get rid of the Pro 9000. I hate like heck to take it to Best Buy for disposal. So I am wondering if there be a hogger who could use any of its parts, such as the print head, or anything else for that matter.
Let me know if you are interested. BTW, I live in the northwest corner of Illinois, in Galena, across the big muddy from Dubuque Iowa. If you private message me I will send you my phone number.
P.S. I also have a couple of new and a set of little used CLI-8 cartridges for this beloved puppy.
I'm a diva, smarty pants. I've sung at Ravinia in Chicago, Tanglewood in the Berkshires, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Santa Fe opera. The extra weight is a job requirement.
Stunning. Well done. Lot's of inherent interest with water droplets. A good step above just another perfect flower. Love it.
I'm sorry, but the first thing that drew my eye in the photos with the copyright/attribution line was just that. You should reduce it to about 20% of its current size, otherwise the photo is as much about you as the subject. Further, my preference would be to find the attribution much closer to one of the lower coners, but in any case not centered.
I think the high key aspect of the shot supports the mood of the girl mostly being elsewhere, not really present.