I agree that the photo would have greater impact if the DOF was a bit deeper, however I like it very much as is. This only took me a few seconds to dowload and I really like to see this quality of photo posted. Might I suggest posting two versions, one for those with slower connections. You would get more viewers that way.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Shel Belinkoff > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:41 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: PEOW: Great Blue Heron Portrait > > > Hello, Jay ... > > I almost stopped the download of your file, but I was into it quite a bit > and decided to wait until it loaded completely. There's no reason or need > to post an 825K file fore a web image. Many viewers are on slow, dial-up > connections, and the wait to see a file of so great a size can be quite > long. Had I tried to download this during a time when Internet > traffic was > heavier, I would have stopped the download. > > When I first saw the bird's eyes I was thinking that this was going to be > something special, and really worth the wait. But, alas, it > turns out that > DOF is too shallow, and apart from the eyes and an area around the top of > the beak, much of the bird is not in sharp focus. The tip of the beak is > not sharp, nor is the neck and feathers, both areas which seem important > (at least to me) in a shot such as this. > > I really like your subtle sig in the lower right corner. > > Jay, for the most part I really like your work, but you continually post > very large-sized images that sometimes make it too time consuming for me - > and I know others - to enjoy viewing. > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Jay Taylor > > > Here's a shot taken a couple months back with the *istDS with the > > FA*300 f4.5 stacked with the F1.7X Adapter. This combo gives me a > > 510mm focal length and is not too shabby provided there is some > > decent light. I tried some Noise Ninja reduction in the BibbleLite > > Raw processing, but didn't like the way detail was lost on the bird > > even though the background was quite a bit better without the noise. > > I suppose if I took the time, I could combine two images (one with > > noise removed in background), but I'm hard pressed to even get this > > much posted lately. > > Comments & critique are always helpful from you folks. > > > > Thanks, > > JayT > > > > http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63091875.IxUtTQK6.GBHPortrait.jpg > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
