RE: almost...

Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>I agree completely with Ted on this!
>
>Jim
>
>
>At 09:36 PM 12/17/2007 -0800, Ted Grant wrote:
>>Douglas Herr showed and said:
>>Subject: [LRflex] IMG: almost...
>> >>I was ready to make a simple portrait of this Common Merganser 
>> when the flock decided to leave.  I hit the shutter release as 
>> quickly as reflexes allowed; I wish I'd gotten the framing better 
>> to get whole wing in the picture:
>> >>http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/come13.jpg
>>disclaimer: most of the water ahead of the bird was cloned<<<<
>>
>>Hi Doug,
>>Cloned water or not it's great! Yeah the top of the wing would've 
>>been nice, but do you know what?
>>
>>Man the rest of it is so great one just shakes their head at your 
>>ability to capture images as drop dead beautifully sharp and on the 
>>wing as this. You can add it to your next book production!
>>
>>And there's no need to tell folks you cloned in some water, like who 
>>cares? I mean if you'd cloned in the missing wing, now that would be 
>>kind of "cheating." ;-) But the water?  Naw no big deal!
>>
>>I agree with David Young you could crop some of the foreground and 
>>in doing so you create a feeling the bird is flying even faster. 
>>About an inch as the image opened on screen, but it's a sort of 
>>feeling thing and I believe worth a try.
>>
>>No mon ami no need for a confessional on some water cloning even 
>>though you did it extremely well. J Besides nobody looks that close 
>>when the photo is so well shot.
>>
>>Damn yer good lad! J
>>ted.
>

Jim, Ted, David - thanks for the feedback and suggestion.  I've cropped the 
picture, let me know if this works better for you.

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/come13.jpg



Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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