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06/20/2007 12:10:14 AM · #1 |
After a long time all but forgetting about my favorite of my dozen hobbies (due to another new baby and moving and job transition(s)) I finally started going out to take pics again. After coming up with nothing the first few times, I finally got a shot that I like (after editing out a large blurred tree trunk that made it into the frame; it's hard taking pictures of flying birds with a slow focusing camera in a very wooded area). Sorry, it's hosted on an external site as I havn't renewed my pay membership yet.
Can someone please comment on it in the thread? I'm still not sure if it's actually a good shot or if it's been so long that I don't have good judgement anymore and I've lost my touch completely.
Would be appreciated greatly! Thanks
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06/20/2007 12:40:57 AM · #2 |
I think it's kinda funky. A bit of motion blur on the bidry off to the vbottom side but that's to be expected.
Good stuff!
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06/20/2007 12:41:16 AM · #3 |
Removed errant wing on far side of crow, added a spooky church steeple. Slight bluish hue, why I don't know.
I guess it just needs something else to draw my interest. But that's just my opinion. |
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06/20/2007 12:54:44 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by bledford:
Removed errant wing on far side of crow, added a spooky church steeple. Slight bluish hue, why I don't know.
I guess it just needs something else to draw my interest. But that's just my opinion. |
Before I took the shot I was aiming at getting some skeleton trees into the right of the frame, but that plan went awry because of the poor performance of my camera. Would up with one scragly branch, barely visible against the sky with more purple tinge than black silhouette, and a large tree trunk a few feet in front of the birds face. Can't predict the path of a mad crow, it didn't fly the same route twice. Though I did find why he was so mad; his mate was flightless on the ground about ten away from me, she apparently couldn't fly. I wanted to get a low angle shot of her with her wings spread but when she started panicking I just left them alone.
Anyways, since it took some editing to get that trunk out of the picture then you're right, I shoulda added something afterwards. I have a habit of taking pictures with not enough to look at, a habit I was trying to break on this trip out. If I'm gonna edit it that much, I might as well go the whole nine yards.
I like your rendition. I think I'll steal your idea and go with it--I have some photos with spooky black shapes to meld with it. Thanks. =] |
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06/20/2007 12:58:16 AM · #5 |
Oh, BTW bledford. You may be a psychic--your blueish tinge was in the original photo, and I realised I had made a mistake removing it but I had done so much editing (removing the wayward tree trunk and some noise in the sky) that I decided it would be too much work to go back. (I never thought of adding it afterwards, duh)
It actually looks almost identical to the hue in the original. |
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06/20/2007 01:08:51 AM · #6 |
Cool. Its a neat image.
The way you describe what you want to achieve reminds me of a Thomas Hardy poem...
"The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires."
-from The Darkling Thrush, one of my faves. |
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