Mallard Flight
by Prism

Comment by cutlassdude70:
Great capture of the mallard in flight, but it seems a bit grainy.

Mallard Flight
by Prism

Comment by vtruan:
I'm voting all birds high this week, just because I can. Nice shot.

Wine Anyone?
by Prism

Comment by sonnyh:
This photo while it is framed does not hold much interest for me.

Clouds
by Prism

Comment by UNTITLED:
Fascinating last light on those cool clouds. Nice photo!

Sturgeon River in Spring
by Prism

Comment by Bear_Music:
Yes, that's much better :-)

Sturgeon River in Spring
by Prism

Comment by Bear_Music:
This is nice, especially the trace of tree detail. Lovely "landscape without subject". If it were mine, I'd do some work on the sky; the color seems too cartoonish, it doesn't marry well with the other, more somber colors.

Early Arrivals
by Prism

Comment by hahn23:
These scenes are almost always better with softer light, which happens +/- 90 minutes on either side of the sun/horizon events. In the middle of the day you will need to contend with harsh light and washed out colors, although a faster shutter speed will allow capture of flocks of birds in some detail, as you have demonstrated in this image. I strongly feel that flocks of birds, or individual birds, often look like a "mistake" unless there is some bird detail showing. I usually prefer the birds (and jet contrails, and cars, and people, and trash from MacDonald's) move through the scene before I expose the image.

I should add that the dynamic range of this scene is a bit too wide, with loss of detail in the dark shadows and loss of detail in the bright portions of the sky. At this point in time, cameras cannot capture what the eye can see in the middle of the day. Until the technology allows captures of big dynamic ranges, we all should confine our landscape photography to times of smaller dynamic ranges in the scenery.

Message edited by author 2006-04-08 01:32:56.

Sturgeon River in Spring
by Prism

Comment by hahn23:
So, is this a landscape scene or a wildlife scene? Not that there is anything wrong with a landscape scene containing a wildlife element. But, if that is the goal, then the ducks are a very minor and too far away element. Immediately noticeable is the dark nature of the tree area. Almost like a neutral density artifact, or transition, between the foreground and the sky. Certainly possible a cloud shaded the trees, but in this shot the sky looks pasted in because the trees are so "unnaturally" dark with a lack of detail. Overall a good image, but needs to have a better foreground anchor (like closer ducks) and a better transition between foreground and sky, other than a starkly dark forest.

Early Arrivals
by Prism

Comment by alfresco:
Very cool effect on the clouds, they have an ethereal feel to them. I'm 50/50 on the overall composition, my eye keeps coming down to the boat but really wants to explore the scene above - competing elements (at least for me).

I did some scroll-cropping in my browser window and like two crops: one just below (or at) the mid-distance weeds (emphasis on boat here) -and- one just above the boat (ie- photo sans boat) emphasising the scene.

Either way I say: Overall a very nice image :)

Another Flower
by Prism

Comment by Bankson:
Nice deep rich color I like the textures too
Your photo really stood out to me
Good job