Graceful Mission
by SandyP

Comment:
Graceful indeed! Love the stick in his mouth. It adds something cool to the picture. Congrats on your big finish, Sandy!

chased the shouting wind along
by vawendy

Comment:
Cool pose. It's like the bird is talking to us. Fantastic score! Big congrats on your new PB!

Fisherman
by AllenP

Comment:

Originally posted by jiminri: Love your composite picture and much deserved scores... Would you mind sharing how you took your picture of the moon? I just can't figure it out...always comes blown out for me? Thanks, jimet00@hotmail.com Jim

I used my 70-200mm mounted on my Canon Extender EF 2x which basically brought the moon closer by factor of 2. Still, the moon was fairly small in my frame. The most important thing for me was to make sure the moon was sharp, so I had to have a fairly fast shutter speed (at least 1/125 sec). The camera was in Av mode so I had to adjust the ISO to get the shutter speed that I wanted. Because it had started to get dark, the camera meter thinks that it needs to overexpose in order to compensate for the dark skies (since the dark skies were in the frame too), hence the moon would come out blown out. What you need to do is to underexpose relative to what the camera says. I always use my exposure bias wheel on my 5D Mark II. I think I went -1 for this one. I didn't care about the sky coming out dark because it was the moon that was important to me. I was planning on extracting the moon out of that picture and stick it into another. Make sure you are on tripod for this. I hope this helps.

DPC loves good light
by gpuretic

Comment:
This is such a beautiful image! I thought it would place much, much higher for sure. Love your flower shots (plus many more).

Graceful Landing...
by sekarmalathy

Comment:
The uniqueness of the way you captured this image is what brought it home for you. Congrats on your big win!

Colorful Liquids, Reflections & Waterdrops
by h2

Comment:
If this is not a proof of what DPC loves the most, then I don't know what is. Congrats!

Message edited by author 2011-03-28 19:54:44.

Fisherman
by AllenP

Comment:
Thank you so much everybody for your comments and feedback. I very much appreciate them.

Just chill
by JulietNN

Comment:
My only 10 in this challenge! You nailed the theme. This one works better than other images because your subject stands out in 2 ways. Both due to depth of field and difference in color/shape. Great work and good luck!

An Orchid Curls
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Great flow in the shape of this flower. Nice processing on this too. I may be wrong but I see some (strong blue) chromatic aberration in the upper left of the flower which might take away from the perfection of this picture. Still great. 8!

Freshhh!
by h2

Comment:
I gave this an 8 but I didn't think this entry would do as well as it did mainly because it doesn't have enough depth of field for the top of the bottle and it stood out to me as a flaw and I was wondering what the reasoning for this was. It looks like the majority of people liked it and that is all that matters. Congratulations!

Just read your description. I guess having those FlexTT5 pocketwizards which allow you to shoot with high-speed sync would have solved your depth of field problem yet giving you sharp splashes.

Message edited by author 2011-03-23 16:45:26.