Lunch in hand
by EdGhoti

Comment by MackThePen:
Good shot! Whites seem slightly burnt out, but fantastic framing and position of the bird's head

Carrots
by EdGhoti

Comment by J-Me:
You should send this to someo fthe food companies! Lovely shot!

Carrots
by EdGhoti

Comment by PurpleFire:
The colour is great, however there are one or two hot spots creaping in on some of the carrots.

I also think that the composition could be improved by either cropping wider to fit the top of the top carrot in, or cropped closer to remove the background all together.

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Cat's Eye
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:
I only voted about 30% of this Challenge and didn't get to this. Hypothetically, I likely wouldn't have scored it too high. Like the concept and the eye, or rather pupil, looks like an underwater shot or 'otherworldly'. However the other aspects of the image dominate too much in my opinion and are also too grain/noisy/something. 640 (or 720 if allowed) would help - again, if the quality was there.

With Intent
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:

Originally posted by sevilduvarci: very nice capture, i like the focus and clarity.

I agree. Like the capture of the flies as well. Especially like the use of the OOF fore/bokeh. Colors are nice. The subtle old style grain/whatever works well in this, in my opinion, giving it an almost matte like appearance.

Samburu Siesta
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:

Originally posted by phreak: you had such great luck and photography skills on your safari! and even the more grainy ones look extremmly good, they remind me of the way old national geographics!

I agree. Very nice composition in this. 'If only' a little sharper on the face but.. still good.

The End of the day
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:
Very nice. Perhaps a whisker off the left side to get them perfectly centered, but minor - and not sure - good as is. Colors very nice here. Like the composition. Good focus. edit:typo

Message edited by author 2007-02-10 12:46:16.

Mara Breakfast
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:
Nice clarity on the eye in this one. Good detail too. Some good shots (great opportunities) of this Kenya trip in your Portfolio. Easy to see this meal was a Zebra.

Full Meal Deal
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:

Originally posted by EdGhoti: ...I understand what you mean and I had rotated it from the original angle, as you'll see it looked like he was walking downhill but it was all in fact flat.

Yes - looked at the original. As I said, it was fairly minor and just a 'nit-pick' purely for the aim of (trying to help) gain 'perfection' (which does not mean everything in the image is 'perfect' - if that makes sense, and just my opinion).

Originally posted by EdGhoti: ... I think the majority of us are here to improve and that can only be accomplished through the criticism of our peers and I certainly appreciate your taking the time to illustrate exactly what you meant.

One of the reasons I joined DPC - but an 'icon' indicating those like that amongst DPC, sure would be good. And, you're welcome. It helps me learn too.

Originally posted by EdGhoti: I wasn't sure how to post a picture to the post so I added the original to my portfolio, so you could see what I had to work with (How did you post the image to your post?).

If you don't want the image to appear in your Portfolio, upload it into your Workshop. To get a thumbnail to appear you can use one of the icons in the comment box or just manually put the code in: [thumb]image number here[/thumb] ([thumb]466389 [/thumb] without the space).

Then the thumb is clickable and opens in a new window.

edit:wording/formatting

Message edited by author 2007-02-11 14:27:36.

Full Meal Deal
by EdGhoti

Comment by macrothing:

Originally posted by EdGhoti: ... I am hoping you will explain what you meant and how this might be accomplished...

First and foremost, I am no 'expert' in photography, nor in post processing, secondly it is fairly minor, but something that always gets my attention - the hyena looks like it is either walking down a slope (which it could be), or the perspective of the image creates that 'illusion' OR, the photo does need 'straightening'. Sometimes just a nudge rotate will fix this (and then obviously a recrop), however due to the grass blades and earth 'lines', they can then become skewed - hence sometimes a perspective correction is used.

I tried a rotate of this and also a perspective fix, posting a version here for you to see what I mean. I do however sometimes get myself in trouble for doing this, and indeed making such a comment/observation - and yes, sometimes I am wrong. Sometimes it is just a visual thing. Anyway, here is the image after a (bad) perspective fix: