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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on April 07, 2013, 08:30:59 pm

Title: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 07, 2013, 08:30:59 pm

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8394/8630118006_47951df05b_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: jeffreybehr on April 07, 2013, 10:22:07 pm

VERY nice--color, contrast, mystery (what is that dark form?).  A great impressionistic image.

FWIW, I probably would have developed it with a little more contrast...darkness...in it.  But I love gloom, and it's your image.   :)

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 07, 2013, 10:28:31 pm

It's a sunning Anhinga

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 07, 2013, 10:32:57 pm

Actually, I was just informed, it is a Cormorant...so, a sunning Cormorant it is.

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 07, 2013, 11:33:05 pm

Nice image. And I DON'T want to see it in B&W.

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: gerafotografija on April 08, 2013, 12:08:17 am

+1

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 08, 2013, 08:29:24 am

Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 07, 2013, 11:33:05 pm

Nice image. And I DON'T want to see it in B&W.

And nor will you!

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: RSL on April 08, 2013, 08:51:48 am

Quote from: Chris Calohan on April 07, 2013, 10:32:57 pm

Actually, I was just informed, it is a Commorant...so, a sunning Commorant it is.

"Cormorant," Chris. The Japanese have been fishing with them for about 1300 years. See http://www.phototravels.net/japan/ukai-cormorant-fishing.html.

I like the image. Good catch.

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 08, 2013, 08:55:54 am

Well, just all kinds of corrections for me today... :o I shall fix immediately and use a dictionary next time.

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: RSL on April 08, 2013, 09:03:05 am

I can understand the confusion. The anhinga and the cormorant appear pretty similar at first glance, but the anhinga has that twisty neck that gives him his other name: "snake bird." He also has a straight beak while the cormorant has a hooked beak.

Yeah, I wouldn't last ten minutes without my World Web Pro dictionary that lets me highlight a word and look it up with the click of a keyboard shortcut.

Title: Re: Reflection of a Spring Day
Post by: RSL on April 08, 2013, 10:49:32 am

Anybody believe in coincidence? This morning I walked the river for a while. At one point an anhinga flew by high overhead, but I had my D800 with a 70-200 lens on it and I popped him. On my way back down the river I saw a cormorant fishing. When he saw me he took off. Again, he was pretty far away, but I popped him too.

Both of these pics are seriously cropped, but I'm posting them for instruction rather than criticism. Look at the anhinga's beak, and then the cormorant's beak. Since the anhinga has his neck pulled in and pretty straight it's hard to tell the difference between the necks on the two birds, but the beaks tell the tale.