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06/08/2006 01:50:50 PM |
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I've always loved jellyfish photos, and this is a very decent example of the genre. Speaking in the abstract, it perhaps falls short of the "best" jellyfish shots in the area of luminosity; the really enthralling ones, for me, have a positively ethereal glow, hovering between solidity and ephemeral translucence. As jellyfish shots go, this one is quite "solid", it's a more tangible effect you know?
Still, you work with what you've got; it's certainly not YOUR fault that the critter is what it is and the lighting is what it is.
What I LIKE about this shot is the very nice DOF control. That part's extremely well done. The colors seem perhaps a tad warm to me, but that's an issue of personal taste more than anything else. I have no idea how "accurate" they are, nor does it much matter to me, although it certainly would to, say, a marine biologist.
If the image has a shortcoming, really, IMO it6 is the composition, which doesn't feel quite right to me. The black is overpowering the jellyfish, and the "apex" of the canopy is right in the horizontal center of the image, neither of which I think is optimum. To my eye, if you crop out about half the black on the right, the composition becomes both more square and more dynamic, an odd juxtaposition I admit but there you have it.
In any event, a very nice and visually rewarding shot; it's the kind of image you can look at again and again and feel compelled by. Nice work, and a decent finish for you :-) |
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06/07/2006 01:43:02 AM |
| wow, I'm impressed with this photo. It can be hard to get good photos of jellyfish--they are usually poorly lit. The detail in this one is absolutely phenomenal. Great job. I'm impressed with the relative lack of noise given the high iso...very nice. |
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06/06/2006 01:16:34 AM |
The border works very well for the shot.
You captured the jellyfish(?) pretty good as well. Yeah. |
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06/03/2006 10:18:44 PM |
| "WOW" factor.... I love this one..... |
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06/02/2006 06:15:42 PM |
| Very nice, rich colors, and even the frame looks good. 8 |
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06/02/2006 11:55:52 AM |
| sweet! did you grab it? ha! |
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05/31/2006 11:08:41 PM |
| This is one of those pictures that begs for you to stare at it. Lots of interesting detail here. I'm assuming this is natural color (with artificial light). |
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05/31/2006 09:04:00 PM |
| Wow!!! That's Amazing! Wish I could get shots like this... |
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05/31/2006 04:46:36 PM |
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05/31/2006 12:46:43 PM |
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05/31/2006 11:30:57 AM |
| Wow! Is this a jellyfish? Real nice!!! |
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05/31/2006 03:32:13 AM |
| Very nice - exposed well and good use of lighting. |
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