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12/30/2004 09:45:16 PM · #1 |
Walked outside around 4:30 p.m. to get the mail and saw this guy in our trees. Ran back inside and got the camera. Got only one shot. Camera's flash with f 5.6 @ 1/60. I know it is not fashionable to center the subject but in this case I felt it contributed to the camouflage. Would appreciate any comments.
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12/30/2004 09:49:05 PM · #2 |
| I think this would have done good in the Wheres Waldo challenge. Nice capture. |
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12/30/2004 09:51:40 PM · #3 |
Thank you for centering. See everything in rule of thirds in starting to get boring.
An animals colors to camoflauge itself from predators helps it hide from them but you have the great eyes to spot it.
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12/30/2004 10:32:49 PM · #4 |
nice capture! he's definitely camoflauged...so much so that he's hard to see in the photo. i did some tinkering on it in Photoshop...helps to make the owl the focal point. i used the lasso tool to isolate the owl, selected the inverse, then applied a slight gaussian blur to the background. whatcha think?
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12/30/2004 10:39:59 PM · #5 |
Wow. Thanks Sher. That is a nice touch. I am going to appply it to my larger version which I want to print. Again, thanks for taking the time to dabble with it. Much appreciated.
BTW love your shot of "Into the Mystic." Is that by any chance into Mystic River, Conn.? |
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12/30/2004 10:53:04 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by drydoc:
Wow. Thanks Sher. That is a nice touch. I am going to appply it to my larger version which I want to print. Again, thanks for taking the time to dabble with it. Much appreciated.
BTW love your shot of "Into the Mystic." Is that by any chance into Mystic River, Conn.? |
my pleasure and thank you! :)
the Into the Mystic shot is over the Mississippi River.
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12/30/2004 11:28:40 PM · #7 |
I like BOTH results very much but must say that this shot would not have done well at all in the Waldo II.
Challenge Details: Same as before, hide a person in your otherwise person-less photo.
Owl != Person and some people would have demolished you for it.
Edit: Oh and rule of thirds. Scary. I was just going to start a rant on that. Sometimes it is the biggest bore going. But now I've said it and I don't need to start a rant (thanx :) )
Message edited by author 2004-12-30 23:30:30.
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12/30/2004 11:45:08 PM · #8 |
| Very cool shot. Nice that he turned to look right at you! The snow really adds to the shot as well. |
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12/31/2004 12:07:55 AM · #9 |
Couldn't enter it in the Where's Waldo. Taken way before the time limit.
Thank you all for the comments. Appreciate your input.
As for rule of thirds: I must admit I try to follow it most of the time. See and understand it's merits. But, at times, just feel rules are just meant to be broken! For this shot my concentration was just in capturing the owl. Still am interested in hearing the points of your rant though. |
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12/31/2004 02:10:10 AM · #10 |
The Gaussian version is a distinct improvement.
The "rule of thirds" is fine, but it's not the only compositional model artists have been using for centuries... There's the symmetrical model, the centered model, the diagonal model, even the more "modern chaos model (cf Jackson Pollock), all are valid.
Sometimes it's NICE to have a serene, centered, balanced image.... And in this one, the belnding of bird into cluttered background is quite the essence of it, isn't it? Centered works good. So might framing another shot with bird in extreme lower right, outside/below the "rule of thirds" intersection, but that's a different picture.
Robt.
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