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10/03/2014 07:32:09 AM |
Greetings from the Crit club
First off... what a great shot.The angle works wonderful and there is a story in this image. The white swan with the black water makes this excellent for B&W and also in this regard you have chosen wise to go with this processing. You mention difficult light conditions and also the subject here being white would have made even worse.
Risky with the 1/15th and I notice with your outtake movement very noticeable and having things work out on this one with hardly any movement visible is great.... yet where it counts in the water it has movement.. giving further dynamics to the image. Comp works well and placed perfectly.
Unfortunately the image did not score very well in the challenge and understandably so as the main subject here is the swan with the water playing a secondary role. Your title supports the water theme slightly but viewers are less concerned with this. I suspect that's the main reason why this image suffered under the hands of voters
It's advanced editing and I would have cloned out the beard growing from under the birds neck - the twigs. There is a slight hot spot on the back of the swan losing detail in feathers but Im not to concerned about that.
All in all a really nice shot and well done photographically speaking.
Regards
Rian Botes |
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10/01/2014 04:31:43 AM |
A subject so close to burning is very risky in challenges... You never know what kind of monitors people have.
You got a very nice and tricky one... exposure had to be carefully measured.
Cheers and thanks for your comments. |
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09/27/2014 06:12:37 PM |
| Nice - good exposure and tones, simple composition and perfect amount of blur in the water. |
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