[LRflex] Re: almost...
- From: Douglas Herr <telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:12:16 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Douglas Herr showed and said:
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>Subject: [LRflex] IMG: almost...
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>>>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:
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>>>http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/come13.jpg
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>disclaimer: most of the water ahead of the bird was cloned<<<<
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>Hi Doug,
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>Cloned water or not it's great! Yeah the top of the wing would've been nice,
>but do you know what?
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>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!
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>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!
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>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.
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>No mon ami no need for a confessional on some water cloning even though you
>did it extremely well. :-) Besides nobody looks that close when the photo is
>so well shot.
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Ted and David, thanks for the feedback and suggestion. I've cropped the photo,
let me know if this works for you:
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/come13.jpg
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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