San Diego Zoo Gorilla
by robpom

Comment by sevilduvarci:
nice capture, i like the DOF.

San Diego Zoo Gorilla
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Comment by jusdino4it:
I like the picture becuase it is a gorilla (i work with gorillas at the pittsburgh zoo). But it looks like u have a little bit of camera shake. The pose is great though.

Ruggles Battery
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Comment by missinseattle:
I really like this. I've been trying to achieve something similar here on the Yorktown battelfields but there aren't as many canons lined up together.

yawn.jpg
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Comment by missinseattle:
Look at those teeth!

Great capture and excellent focus

eyes.jpg
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Comment by gaurawa:
I would recommend a tighter crop to bring attention to the eyes as you titled the picture.

yawn.jpg
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Comment by moniepenny:
Good timing.

eyes.jpg
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Comment by Melethia:
A square crop might better suit this picture. Focus is crisp from what I can tell, and the post processing looks OK to me. He looks hungry... :-)

Tunnel View - Yosemite National Park
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Comment by vtruan:
I like this on best of your Yosemite series. Shows the park, cliffs, and falls well. van

Gorilla2.jpg
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Comment by benhur:
great frame filler but the eyes are too soft they need to be a lot sharper for the image to have greater impact.

Yosemite Falls
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Comment by Bear_Music:
In many ways the strongest of the photos. I still have this sense of cramped composition. I'm pretty much noticing it in all 4 images. Processing is pretty realistic here, composition cries out for another 10-20% at the top to open her up and let her breathe. Anyhow, the light is less flat here, and this has paid benefits on the wall to the right.

But imagine the light coming from the left and perfectly parallel to the left wall: that wall will be "raked" by light, fairly dark, textured, the waterfall will glow, the texture of the right wall will also be expressed, the lower, foreground wall will be in shadow. If it's the right time of year for the light to be low in the sky when it rakes that wall, then the vegetation in the foreground/middleground will become luminous, or more so anyway.

I'm rambling. You had whatever you had, you wanted to shoot these shots, they ARE nice :-) I'd only gently urge that next time, you turn around as you go and look at the light all around you. If the light's right behind you, turn around and find something else where the light is working well. Yosemite LOVES backlighting, for instance.

I'll try to process a variation of one of these and post it.

Thanks for sharing!