PEOW: Another GBH Portrait
I have not been able to get out and do much shooting as of late since I'm busy trying to move into a new home my wife and I are purchasing. That coupled with the start of Salmon fishing season has kept me away from my camera. This is another of my Great Blue Heron images captured with the *istDL and the FA*300 f4.5 + F1.7X adapter. The full res image looked pretty awesome on this shot. For this web resized version I experimented with blurring the background more at an attempt to create a more pleasing bokeh. As always comments and suggestions are helpful. Thanks, JayT http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63808751.VbQd49L0.GBHPortrait3.jpg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PEOW: Another GBH Portrait
Jay Taylor wrote: I have not been able to get out and do much shooting as of late since I'm busy trying to move into a new home my wife and I are purchasing. That coupled with the start of Salmon fishing season has kept me away from my camera. This is another of my Great Blue Heron images captured with the *istDL and the FA*300 f4.5 + F1.7X adapter. The full res image looked pretty awesome on this shot. For this web resized version I experimented with blurring the background more at an attempt to create a more pleasing bokeh. As always comments and suggestions are helpful. Thanks, JayT http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63808751.VbQd49L0.GBHPortrait3.jpg It's a really sharp image, but like the other shot a while back (not sure from whom), I dislike disembodied head shots of herons, egrets and cranes. They just look all wrong. :-) -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PEOW: Another GBH Portrait
Christian wrote: Jay Taylor wrote: I have not been able to get out and do much shooting as of late since I'm busy trying to move into a new home my wife and I are purchasing. That coupled with the start of Salmon fishing season has kept me away from my camera. This is another of my Great Blue Heron images captured with the *istDL and the FA*300 f4.5 + F1.7X adapter. The full res image looked pretty awesome on this shot. For this web resized version I experimented with blurring the background more at an attempt to create a more pleasing bokeh. As always comments and suggestions are helpful. Thanks, JayT http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63808751.VbQd49L0.GBHPortrait3.jpg It's a really sharp image, but like the other shot a while back (not sure from whom), I dislike disembodied head shots of herons, egrets and cranes. They just look all wrong. :-) Nicely taken; texture on feathers is great. I think the crop is too close; the heron looks squeezed in the frame. Also I think you may have overdone the blur and that makes it look a bit strange. Just IMO. Keith McG -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PEOW: Another GBH Portrait
I've got to go with Christian on this one. Technically, it is excellent. It belongs in a book about Herons to help you see exactly what they look like (at least the head/neck). But aesthetically, it doesn't quite do it for me. I'd like to see the body and maybe even a small bit of surroundings. -- Bruce Thursday, July 20, 2006, 1:24:17 AM, you wrote: C It's a really sharp image, but like the other shot a while back (not C sure from whom), I dislike disembodied head shots of herons, egrets and C cranes. They just look all wrong. :-) C -- C Christian C http://photography.skofteland.net C Jay Taylor wrote: I have not been able to get out and do much shooting as of late since I'm busy trying to move into a new home my wife and I are purchasing. That coupled with the start of Salmon fishing season has kept me away from my camera. This is another of my Great Blue Heron images captured with the *istDL and the FA*300 f4.5 + F1.7X adapter. The full res image looked pretty awesome on this shot. For this web resized version I experimented with blurring the background more at an attempt to create a more pleasing bokeh. As always comments and suggestions are helpful. Thanks, JayT http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63808751.VbQd49L0.GBHPortrait3.jpg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
