Luna Eclipse Saturn and Regulus
by jmritz

Comment by Strikeslip:
Very nice, I like the wider angle. Good idea.

Luna Eclipse Saturn and Regulus
by jmritz

Comment by jmritz:
One to the lower left is Saturn.

Luna Eclipse Saturn and Regulus
by jmritz

Comment by LadyK:
whic star, or planet i guess, is which?

water under the bridge
by jmritz

Comment by cynthiann:
A nice composition, but just a little too yellow.

water under the bridge
by jmritz

Comment by bimble:
I really like the tinting

Dawn
by jmritz

Comment by HighNooner:
Two days before the new luner month. A very short memory I say 10 any way

Cardinal
by jmritz

Comment by zxaar:
OOOOOOOO, the blur has killed it. Could have been a good photo but the blur. I am not sure if it was intensional but it does not gel well with DPC crowd.

Cardinal
by jmritz

Comment by Zoomdak:
Nice picture of a cardinal (and I love cardinals). Doesn't quite have the technical aspects and wow factor DPC likes though. First off, yeah, the image is relatively sharp, but not tack sharp. The composition is well, sorry to say, kind of boring. It is all centered. My eye is immediately drawn to the eye of the bird, but there isn't much to look at after that. I would like to see a little bit deeper DOF, but it looks like that'd be hard to do with this bird and those lighting conditions. Still, impressively close shot of a cardinal.

Cardinal
by jmritz

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I don't think out of focus or dpeth of field was really the problem. Though his eye is nice and sharp, the beak looks like there was some motion blur going on. I the beak were as clear as the area behind it, I don't think the rest of it would have been as big a problem, but my eye is drawn to the blurry beak.

Cardinal
by jmritz

Comment by MaryO:
You're right, the eye is sharp, but the beak isn't. He could have been in mid-chew; at f/8 it shouldn't be a DOF issue. I think people expect the eye and beak to have the same amount of sharpness since they're usually the same distance from the lens, and either one being soft loses you points. Plus there's the added factor that some voters were probably tired of birds by the time they got to yours!

I really like his position in the image and the eye contact is pretty darned cool. You really did get phenomenal detail in that eyeball.