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[Scott Schmith]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

PS: 50-200 @ 63 mm.

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[David W. Brewer]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

PS: 50-200 @ 63 mm.

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Scott:

MarkE is the president and chief honcho of the GBH Club; your application will have to be approved by him. I'll be happy to endorse your application though. Nice capture. Two minor nits: 1) the whites on the upper neck/head area are slightly hot (or at least they appear a little beyond texture white on my monitor); and 2) the lake shoreline in the background is oof (a plus) but runs through the head with a tonality matching that of the bird's coloration in this area. By dropping down slightly or raising up, you could have changed the perspective as to where the shorline was in relation to the bird's head (hopefully not spooking the gbh in the process), or at least separated the tonality of the bird from that or the shoreline. Overall an excellent capture. Nicely composed, focus is tack-sharp, etc.
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[scott kirkpatrick]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

We have the same fellow here in Jerusalem. Not shy at all, a proud lord of the duckpond at the university's botanical garden. I was about 10 m away.

http://www.pbase.com/image/26448022

Israel sees a lot of migrating cranes, many of which winter here rather than in Africa, which was their traditional winter stop, because of available crops and refuges. Saw pelicans, cranes and storks in the 100s (but not close enough to photograph) last weekend in the Hula valley.

scott

 

[bowmann]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

PS: 50-200 @ 63 mm.

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C-3030Z, E-10 and E-1 Photos at
http://photos.schmith.com and http://www.schmithdigital.ch/fotos/

Scott:

MarkE is the president and chief honcho of the GBH Club; your
application will have to be approved by him. I'll be happy to
endorse your application though. Nice capture. Two minor nits:
1) the whites on the upper neck/head area are slightly hot (or at
least they appear a little beyond texture white on my monitor); and
2) the lake shoreline in the background is oof (a plus) but runs
through the head with a tonality matching that of the bird's
coloration in this area. By dropping down slightly or raising up,
you could have changed the perspective as to where the shorline was
in relation to the bird's head (hopefully not spooking the gbh in
the process), or at least separated the tonality of the bird from
that or the shoreline. Overall an excellent capture. Nicely
composed, focus is tack-sharp, etc.
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'Live, learn, and pass it on.'

Never mind Scott, I like it anyway
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John Bow

 

[daddyo]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

Scott,
Excellent shot -- he's a handsome fellow!
God Bless,
Greg

 

[Scott Schmith]

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[terdonal]

Do I qualify for membership with this submission?

http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=639&full=1

Thanks
Scott

PS: 50-200 @ 63 mm.

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C-3030Z, E-10 and E-1 Photos at
http://photos.schmith.com and http://www.schmithdigital.ch/fotos/

Scott welcome to the club. Pretty nice effort but as noted some very good tips from David that I too have to keep in mind. I find these guys to be very difficult to get everything balanced so that the white does not get blown out and the nicer the weather the harder to control. Mark does a very good job of this on the Cranes but even he has difficulties with this at times. The comment regarding the shoreline is very valid and something that I notice myself when I get home and say why didn't I notice that when framing for the shot. Sometimes though in the excitement of the moment and the window of opportunity being very short sometimes all of these thoughts go out the window no matter how well intentioned when I start out. Keep up the good work.
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[Larry O]

Hi:

Being pretty much a beginner, I would appreciate feedback to this. (be nice). Would it be an option to burn (or is it dodge) the similar color on the shoreline to create a little contrast? I took a photo of a goose. The backround was ice. I spot metered the goose, causing the ice to blow out. I burned the ice and that made the photo acceptable (in my opinion)

What do you folks think?
Lawrence

E10, TCON 14B

 

[David W. Brewer]

Hi:

Being pretty much a beginner, I would appreciate feedback to this.
(be nice). Would it be an option to burn (or is it dodge) the
similar color on the shoreline to create a little contrast? I took
a photo of a goose. The backround was ice. I spot metered the
goose, causing the ice to blow out. I burned the ice and that made
the photo acceptable (in my opinion)

What do you folks think?
Lawrence

E10, TCON 14B

Lawrence:

I am in the firm opinion that if it isn't broken, don't fix it. If the burn and dodge method works for you, then by all means use it. In my years of darkroom work I used burn and dodge to alter tonality on numerous occasions; an acceoptable darkroom procedure. The problem in translating that to most digital images is that -- for the most part-- tonality in a digitized image is dependant upon the presence (or absence) of detail, leading to a color number being assigned to a particular pixel. Ergo, pixels of like tonality tend to have the same amount of detail by definition. If both tones are similar because of "blown highlights" - i.e., absence of detail - no amount of dodging and burning will create suitable detail in the absence of same. Dodging and burning works only if there is adequate detail in the areas of the image to be altered; it will not create detail in the absence of same. The solutions available in post processing then are: 1) cloning in detail, and/or 2) pixel tonality substitution, wherein one tone is substituted for another (i.e., creating a mask of a desired tone and layering same into place in an image of composite layers). I am still quite a novice at digital post-processing; there are more qualified people in this forum to answer your question.

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