It's a 2 bird parade for your review and critique, please...
Sep 22, 2011 14:22:52 #
Baboo wrote:
Oh!!! No it is beautiful! I just landed on the topic and saw how beautiful the shot was. I sure would NOT like to see her in the middle of the photograph! All that said, BEAUTIFUL, and now I get it! I came in on the end of the Movie....(Not unlike me!).
Your story is perfect. The landing and out of control way before you get your "feet".
I will look more before I chime in!
;)
Your story is perfect. The landing and out of control way before you get your "feet".
I will look more before I chime in!
;)
Thanks again. I am not, by any stretch, an anti-chimer kind of person. I think late chimers often give us an opportunity to revisit our vision occasionally so that other late-chimers can also "get it." You gave me that opportunity. Thank you.
Sep 22, 2011 16:37:01 #
gessman wrote:
quote=mortonfarm quote=gessman quote=mortonfarm... (show quote)
My sentiments exactly....Every something beautiful I capture and hold for a while is a gift from God to me....! Not in the least ashamed to give Him the credit...My Father, an extrodinary man, was a mortician who made his 2nd income with a camera in his hand worked all his magic in his closet darkroom and a 2nd hand developer...and printing apparatus from the late 60's till his death in 1983...he would have been amazed at the digital wizardry we have at our disposal and would have loved critiquing my feeble efforts...If there was a wedding he did it, christnings, anniversaries, showers, social events, community, graduation, prom...he did it all....His photoshop was the negative, backlight and a retouching pencil...he was awesome...! He credited all he knew, any talent he had to the good Lord and was very successful....I miss him so very much...and Bob reminds me, in his knowledge base of him, tho a younger man than my father would have been now...in a way, so do you...Ahhh...I have a tear starting and no beer to go with it...Have a good day and keep shooting...maybe one of us will win the lottery one of these days...Catch the "big shot"...lol Linda
Oct 28, 2011 11:14:10 #
Rules?? I shoot how I like to shoot and throw the rule book out the window! The Merganser looks good only she is going to run out of room. Ok so I lied I don't throw all the rules out but nearly all of them. I do follow one rule and that is give the animal room to go somewhere. That's about the only rule I follow?
Oct 28, 2011 11:39:48 #
SJD wrote:
Rules?? I shoot how I like to shoot and throw the rule book out the window! The Merganser looks good only she is going to run out of room. Ok so I lied I don't throw all the rules out but nearly all of them. I do follow one rule and that is give the animal room to go somewhere. That's about the only rule I follow?
Okay, I don't want to ruin your day with too much tension. Here ya go...
Oct 28, 2011 11:48:24 #
Oct 28, 2011 11:59:48 #
[quote=gessman]Hey folks, if I'm over-working ya and need to slow down or give it a break, please let me know. I have wrestled with these two shots and whether I should like 'em or not. this first shot is a little less complicated than the other one, I think, so I'll get it out of the way first.
This female common Merganser is coming in for a landing and has just skidded a little on the surface of the water and then slowed down but hasn't yet settled onto the water's surface. Is this a case where it is prudent and acceptable to show a moving subject as moving out of the image rather than into it?
I would ask if the issue is not the rule of thirds relative to the birds but rather the view of the subject to the picture?
That is the subject is not the birds but rather the birds and what they are doing. The bird and the process of landing and gliding through the water and the wake.
The pictures are pleasing to the eye and adjusting the placement of the bird does not really improve the picture. I like them both as you posted.
I'm new to photography and just learning. This is just my thought on the subject. What do you think?
This female common Merganser is coming in for a landing and has just skidded a little on the surface of the water and then slowed down but hasn't yet settled onto the water's surface. Is this a case where it is prudent and acceptable to show a moving subject as moving out of the image rather than into it?
I would ask if the issue is not the rule of thirds relative to the birds but rather the view of the subject to the picture?
That is the subject is not the birds but rather the birds and what they are doing. The bird and the process of landing and gliding through the water and the wake.
The pictures are pleasing to the eye and adjusting the placement of the bird does not really improve the picture. I like them both as you posted.
I'm new to photography and just learning. This is just my thought on the subject. What do you think?
Oct 28, 2011 12:20:01 #
[quote=Bobgattshall]
Sounds like good sound thinking to me. I think both images work but I think the bird slicing through the water tells more of a story about what was happening that I was taking a picture of than the "more appropriate" one.
gessman wrote:
Hey folks, if I'm over-working ya and need to slow... (show quote)
Sounds like good sound thinking to me. I think both images work but I think the bird slicing through the water tells more of a story about what was happening that I was taking a picture of than the "more appropriate" one.
Oct 28, 2011 12:28:39 #
[quote=gessman]
Ok sounds right to me.
Bobgattshall wrote:
quote=gessman Hey folks, if I'm over-working ya a... (show quote)
Ok sounds right to me.
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