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Comment by kblm:
looks like you playede with the settings a little. Very nice

Tie Me Kangaroo Down - Rolf Harris
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Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Martin...

This photo ties with your song title nicely. There is no doubt in my mind that I'm looking at a kangaroo :)

My first impression of this photo is that it lacks punch. There is not much here that really grabs my attention. I think the image could be a bit stronger with a few minor compositional changes.

See the large horizontal root just below the kangaroo's feet? Take a piece of paper and cover up the part of this image from that root to the bottom and then look at your image again. This minor crop change creates two improvements for me in this photo.

1 - it removes the uninteresting foreground. There is noting in that area of the photograph that adds impact to your image.

2 - it re-positions the kangraoo to a more desireable location in the frame (on a 'third' intersection).

In the current presentation, the kangaroo and the tree end a little too close to to the center of the frame to suit my taste.

A third improvement to this image may be to add a little extra sharpness with software. The image seems to be just a bit soft, but I think a sharpen filter in photoshop would fix that right up...

Keep up the good work :)

John Setzler

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Comment by Turbotech:
Light is a little harsh. This is a wonderful shot. Nice color. Little pixelated.

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Comment by insipidangel:
i dont know what it is that appeals to me.. but i really really like this picture. Good job done.

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Comment by inspzil:
The landscape itself looks pretty dull. Add the round bales and you got yourself a pic!! Nice colors. Looks like the upper left side wanted to glare a bit - Inspzil

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Comment by DougPaz:
I like the title and the colors are great. The haze or smoke in the left middle is really distracting though. Nice shot.

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Comment by David Ey:
This is my favorite this week (besides mine of course).
I would have cropped about half of the sky.

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Comment by firstduchess:
Nice colour, but the sun flare does not add to the photo. There also appears to be too much grain. Perhaps a lower ISO would have been better and positioning it a little more to the right to get the sun out of the frame.

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Comment by Harz_Joerg:
The composition is wonderfull and you have choosen a great topic. In my opinion it could have been improved by choosing a darker and deeper blue for the sky, but maybe this was not possible. Together with the yellow it looks a little artificial to me. Also the bright spot from the sun in the upper left corner does not add something in my opinion. Still a great picture for its topic and a 8 from me.

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Comment by jjbeguin:
If that one could be re-shot my advice would be: get closer to some of these and have more fun composing with these shapes in different sizes and keep just enough sky only to mark the horizon. 7