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05/13/2009 04:19:50 PM |
| And the pigeon takes the lead!! :-) |
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09/02/2008 04:15:04 AM |
| ugh this reminds me of the pigeon I saw last week that flew into a car, bounced off the side and then hit another car's tire, spinning with the wheel a couple of times before getting shot out in a puff of feathers on the freeway XP ...but other than that, good capture! lol |
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05/30/2004 08:32:08 PM |
| EXceptional shot! A 5.6 was way too low for this terrific photograph. Good one. |
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05/06/2003 06:40:10 PM |
Thanks everyone, I really appreciated both the quality and quantity of comments -- I think this is the most I've gotten.
I was trying to shoot a couple of pigeons close-up on the sidewalk. When this one took off I just turned and shot -- camera was on auto-everything, so exposure/aperture were in Olympus' care...
I was most worried about resolution issues, as I had to crop a pretty small section out of a larger frame. But I felt with the eye and head looking so sharp, everything else could stand the blur...I was upset at first about the car, but now I actually think it makes a better background/contrast than the grassy yard across the street would have.
I was so encouraged by all the comments and the camera's performance, I tried a similar shot the next week:
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05/06/2003 08:30:41 AM |
Critique Club:
Hi Paul, I got your pic to critique :-) The first thing that struck me when I looked at this pic is the sharpness of the pigeon's eye and that it seemed to be looking directly at me. It is amazing how you captured that eye, the color is a wonderful deep red/orange and it is definitely the focal point of your image.
As I mentioned below in my original comment the motion blur on the wings is very effective and works well with the in-focus body and head.
The car in the background is somewhat distracting though and it was just unfortunate that it was driving past at the moment you shot the pigeon. You could have blurred it out a little by reducing your shutter speed to between 1/30 and 1/60, which is usually the best panning speed. This would taken the background into a motion blur but at the same time would have created too much motion blur on the pigeon's wings.
Maybe it would just have been best to ask the pigeon to do a series of fly-by's until you got the correct exposure in :-)
All in all a very good pic which is mirrored by the 5.6 score it received. Well done.
Gary |
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04/29/2003 02:06:02 AM |
| too bad the shutter wasnt faster.. nice effort |
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04/29/2003 12:29:56 AM |
| Wow, very interesting shot. The car is pretty distracting, but in order to get a shot like this you have to make some sacrifices. I like it! |
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04/28/2003 10:31:15 PM |
| This is almost a really great capture. If it were only a little clearer in terms of the subject. The car could remain blurred with little ill effect but the subject should be clearer. Really close. Good effort |
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04/28/2003 07:00:56 PM |
| Unusual compostion, but it works for me. Looking at it, I do fear for the bird's safety though :) |
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04/28/2003 05:46:11 AM |
| woweee,, what a great pic!! |
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04/27/2003 11:05:21 AM |
| Very cool image. You can tell that you planned this very well. Great shot! |
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04/26/2003 11:44:29 PM |
| Amazing that you captured this just in time! nice title |
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04/26/2003 10:28:40 PM |
| Good Capture. Great feeling of motion. |
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04/26/2003 08:36:42 AM |
| Nice panned action shot. Don't see lots of those here. |
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04/25/2003 07:36:38 PM |
| very cool shot. i wish you had been able to take it w/out the car in the background, however. |
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04/25/2003 10:08:21 AM |
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04/24/2003 04:04:20 PM |
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04/24/2003 03:15:36 PM |
| It's got such an intrepid expression! It didn't plan to be a nuisance creature... I hope you can cut pigeons some slack. |
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04/24/2003 01:28:22 PM |
| Nearly a grand shot: just a shame about the background, and the bits of the pigeon one would want to see as 'still' not being quite so. |
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04/24/2003 08:16:51 AM |
| Choice capture. The motion blur on the wings works well especially contrasted against the sharp head. |
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04/24/2003 06:10:06 AM |
| blurry, but showing realy nice action! |
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04/24/2003 05:19:56 AM |
| You've caught it well here - I like the car in the background too (I realise it wasn't deliberate). The eye really jumps out of this pic - good shot. |
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04/23/2003 10:45:05 PM |
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04/23/2003 07:15:01 PM |
| Good capture of a usually non-compelling subject. I'm not sure about the car in the background. |
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04/23/2003 07:05:17 PM |
| Keeping up with the traffic, eh? I like this. Nice shot. |
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04/23/2003 02:30:19 PM |
| That's a great capture but the background really spoils it. Love the blur on the wingtips, hate the car. |
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04/23/2003 02:02:17 PM |
| We actually call them SkyRats!!! LIke the movement you have captured |
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04/23/2003 12:51:32 PM |
| I dont know what you were trying to achieve with this photo but for a second i thought the car was about to hit the bird, theres definatly the element of movement and tension, as for Fauna i think (although i doubt you were thinking this when you took the pictue) that this is a modern interpretation of the dangers man has inflicted on nature. |
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04/23/2003 12:25:19 PM |
| Like this, good urban shot! Excellent motion, would have been better with the birds face more in focus. |
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04/23/2003 10:24:18 AM |
| must've been very hard to catch this moment |
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04/23/2003 10:04:45 AM |
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04/23/2003 10:03:40 AM |
| cool shot but slightly distracting background |
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04/23/2003 03:31:32 AM |
| The title is so correct; pigeons are big source of diseases :). Now about your picture, I like the idea the photo suggests (maybe that's because I'm not so fond of pigeons) and the way you've captured the motion. On the other hand there is a little too much motion in it; nothing is really in focus (I realize that this was a very difficult shot to make). |
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04/23/2003 12:22:31 AM |
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04/23/2003 12:05:20 AM |
| Man your timing is fantastic. Animals are hard to get, especially when they are moving that fast. A little blurry, but that is nothing really, I would generally expect a lot more blur for this type of shot. Graet job |
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