Lunch For Three
by LVE

Comment:
you've attempted to capture a difficult scene here (tho I'm glad you did, because i think it has great impact and made me laugh).

The sunlight is coming through the trees, so any subject is going to have hot spots and underexposed parts. To top it off, you've selected a very contrasty subject given the bright feathers against the shadows. Digital photography tends to lose detail both in highlights and shodows more than film, so correct exposure is paramount; if that's impossible, err to the side of underexposure, and try to bring back the detail is post-processing (true of film as well, only less pronounced).

If you're metering, meter to the whitest spot on the Ibis, because once that detail is gone, you can't get it back. Your camera has a 'highlight' feature that will show you the overexposed parts of the photo during the 2-second playback right after you take the pic (the blown out parts will flash). using this or the histogram function gives you immediate feedback on this. Short of that, you can bracket you exposure (take several shots with graduated exposure to make sure at least one of them is on).

One possible remedy is to intentionally underexpose the subject, and use a fill flash (low powered on-camera flash). this will all but eliminate the effect of the sun from close range, and as the name suggests 'fill' in light where there would be shadows.

Great composition, humorous subject, sharp focus, good color balance.

Overall worth more than the score it got. ;)

Pedro

Used,abused and abandoned
by pitsaman

Comment:
this creeps me out. nice technicals; DOF, colour, saturation etc - all bang on.

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Thirsty
by jmritz

Comment:
KK? great shot. maybe a little over-saturated, but the clarity is brilliant.

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Extraordinary City of Toronto
by notonline

Comment:
what's weird is I'm prolly IN this picture. i was staying in an apartment on King west at the time you'd have taken this. Love the long (30 sec?) exposure. maybe a little too much in the foreground. nice balance; hard to acheive on this sort of pic.

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hotshot
by marlin

Comment:
that's a lot of work that went into this shot. in the end the picture is only average, but those of us who have tried to get the storbe effect know how great it is that you got the hand sharp well done.

RED STORM
by aznym

Comment:
nice watch. nice laser pointer :) look s little off centre. cool concept.

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Out of the Blue
by Zoomdak

Comment:
the lighting is awesome, the composition is ok, the clarity is impeccable. too bad it's basic editing so you can't get rid of the spots below the drop. good entry.

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Pyrotechnics
by carlop

Comment:
i bet 90% of the peeps who see this don't get how cool it really is. of you faked it...it's even cooler.

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Vegetables, horses... and a beer.
by ajschel

Comment:
perhaps if you were extraordinarily smashed. the beer is blown out by your fill flash. which is ok, except the rest is overexposed too. concept is nice, the execution makes me wonder a bit. nice horses. :)

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Hazy-River.jpg
by Pedro

Comment:
most of it is natural...it was really foggy. All I did was my usual quadtone and curves adjustments.
I'll send you the quadtone action of you want it.

Pedro