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05/12/2007 03:53:13 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
Ah! A heron! What magnificent colors! How fine the detail in its feathers! I love looking at birds and stalking them with my camera. They are often difficult subjects...even herons who seem to pose... The watery environment they inhabit poses obstacles for the photographer attempting the best composition. Their intentness on fishing suddenly moves them to action and the moment is gone before the focus is fixed.
I like this image. I like the character of the bird...it's frozen stance and gaze. To isolate the subject better a more limited depth of field would help. But even with that you're fighting the darkness of the log behind the subject and the merger of the beak with the line of that log would still exist. I think that the left hand portion of the image has little to offer...perhaps cropping it out and creating a square format would bring the viewer's attention back where the interest of the image lies? Even within the advanced (not expert) editing rules the background could be slightly desaturated, again with the intent of placing emphasis on the heron.
Overall, a well done image at a beautiful time of day!
Keep stalking!
--Kadi |
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05/07/2007 11:49:58 PM |
| Gorgeous bird - with this rules set you could have done a bit to concentrate the viewers focus more. |
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05/04/2007 09:48:55 PM |
| Nice colors on the bird, but he's getting a bit lost against the dark tree/busy landscape. |
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05/02/2007 11:22:01 PM |
| Very nice picture of the bird, but the busy foreground of the image is very distracting, unfortunately. |
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05/02/2007 05:19:14 PM |
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05/01/2007 11:07:39 PM |
| Beautiful colors in the bird. Great composition. Nice shot. |
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05/01/2007 03:43:30 PM |
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05/01/2007 12:35:45 AM |
Nice bird - I love green herons.
I do find the blur added in post distracting; it doesn't look like in-camera, so I'm drawn away from your subject. |
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