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01/14/2004 06:12:49 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
To be honest, I do not like hunting, especially on birds, but that's my personal taste. The image is somewhat nervous and grainy and dark.
Content/Composition
I (as probably many) didn't get that there was a shotgun barrel at the lower left. Only by reading your comment I noticed it. Had the exactly same experience once with my "four" submission :(.
As mentioned above the image is somewhat nervous for the following reason: there are too many ducks to get them with a single view, but on the other hand the individual ducks are to large and detailed to see them just as a swarm of ducks. Hence the viewers eye walks around the image searching for something special, which can actually not be found.
Getting less close might have been better. Cropping out most of them and showing only the two left once would have given probably too many difficulties with the graininess (unless digitally taken away)
Camera work -technically
Focus seems a bit off, but I'm not really sure. Exposure is too much on the dark side, but you had probably problems getting enough light anyway as I can see from the camera settings.
Digital Processing - Technical
You could have made the image brighter digitally and of course the barrel more pronounced (though I'm actually not sure if the way you made is allowed, probably yes).
You could have sharpened the ducks more using "smart sharpening" and also blurred using the same inverted selection the noise away. I tried it on the image, works well.
Also some more colour saturation would have brought some more structure to the ducks.
Fits the challenge
Needs the title, but then it fits.
Good luck for your further submissions
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01/11/2004 02:08:22 PM |
| There is nothing that really makes this photo stand out, I think a white boarder would have framed it better, also you should have cropped out the post at the bottom. |
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01/07/2004 08:36:35 PM |
| not a fan of hunting ...sorry |
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01/07/2004 02:17:22 PM |
| Almost a great pattern shot. The birds look a little blurry, and the object sticking up on the left breaks up the illusion of great height. |
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01/07/2004 10:23:56 AM |
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01/06/2004 12:42:19 PM |
| The sky seems to have alot of noise in it. |
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01/05/2004 01:18:45 PM |
| Probably should have cropped out the object on the bottom left. A little on the grainy side. |
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01/05/2004 08:11:50 AM |
| This is an OK shot. It is difficult to get a good one of these unless you have a telescopic site or you are really close. The pole in the lower left is distracting, the focus is off and the sky is too speckled. The U shape of the birds with the 3 in the middle is an interesting pattern. Hope this helps. |
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