On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a shot I took way back at the end of May, shortly after I got my > K-x. I've been tinkering with it off and on ever since and can't bring > myself to abandon it, as it was the first in-flight bird I ever captured > that I was somewhat proud of. The color of the background was absolutely > horrid in the original photo, and it was pretty noisy by K-x standards. I > messed with toning down the colors (it was an abhorrent mix of brown, green, > rust, and yellow originally) until I finally decided it looked best with > everything desaturated out, except for the red of the bird. I'm still > trying to deal with some ugliness on the beak, but I'm slowly getting it out > of there. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5045841583/ > K-x, DAL 50-200mm, f/5.6, ISO 400, 1/1250 sec > > It was shot in jpeg format, so I'm somewhat limited in my options. And this > is a resized (2400 pixels long-side) version after some minor cropping (I'm > trying to stay as close to the original resolution as possible for now). > Any tips on what I can do, aside from the cropping, to make it a more > effective image? > > Comments, critiques, and/or relentless hectoring welcome.
Good shot, but I'd prefer to have seen the wings out. Just doesn't "look right" to me - as if he's just hanging in mid-air rather than moving in a direction (presumably forward). And again with the desaturation thing. I'll comment no more on that. ;-) I do recognize the difficulties in catching such moments at the perfect time, so I'll still say "very good shot". cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
