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Lovely environmental portrait of the Turnstone.
If I was to pick hairs it would have been better if you had managed to get one with the dark rocks behind the bird's head and so making the white head stand out more. But that's the thing with nature you can't often pose it where you want. But this is a minor pick agaiunst a lovely image.
Chris
If I was to pick hairs it would have been better if you had managed to get one with the dark rocks behind the bird's head and so making the white head stand out more. But that's the thing with nature you can't often pose it where you want. But this is a minor pick agaiunst a lovely image.
Chris
Good exposure on the turnstone, good pose, shutter speed frozen it nicely, focus correct, just a shame about the overbright background caused by the sun reflecting off the water. Its lost the definition of the top of it's head as its disappeared into the whiteness which is a shame. 'Fraid its time to change the background in Photoshop, or go out and shoot again from a slightly different angle so that the bird is outlined against the rocks instead of the sea for example.
te51cle said:
just a shame about the overbright background caused by the sun reflecting off the water.
I know. It's a pain in the A55 living in a place where it's 26 C in April and the sun is shining like, errr...well...the sun!
Will try again tommorrow.
Martin.
PS - Tristram, I take it the flower is "OK" then?
>> Edited by V6GTO on Thursday 14th April 19:20
and i love the crystal effect the sun gives to the water. Shame it's got a whie head as said allready but very good (is it never or nonetheless, i never know? ) V6GTO said:
I know. It's a pain in the A55 living in a place where it's 26 C in April and the sun is shining like, errr...well...the sun!
Will try again tommorrow.
I'm not at all jealous of that weather... grrr... We had hail in Basingstoke today, then the sun shone, then we had rain, then the sun came out all while I was on a Health and Safety course.
Flower is OK but I think it lacks the impact of your "two scorpions" shot from Monday though. Being careful what I say on these as I'm due to go to Kew with the camera club at the end of May so I'll have to put up examples of my vistit then.
Also went to a competition between four clubs last Tuesday and judge there came down quite hard on what he called "record" shots of nature. The kind of shot where you wait patiently for hours (possibly days) for the lesser spotted warbler to land on the post AND look in the right direction AND for the light to be on it didn't do very well. They want nature subjects to be shown interacting with their habitat now - though quite how you're supposed do that with a flower is beyond me !
te51cle said:
We had hail in Basingstoke today......I'm due to go to Kew with the camera club at the end of May!
Do you belong to B/stoke camera club? I used to in a past life
Is Phil with his Kingfisher slides still there? It's a small world. Martin.
>> Edited by V6GTO on Thursday 14th April 20:34
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