Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: wmchauncey on October 22, 2013, 02:35:15 pm
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What say you folks about this one?
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l383/chauncey43/4-GBH-take-off-copy.jpg) (http://s329.photobucket.com/user/chauncey43/media/4-GBH-take-off-copy.jpg.html)
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I think your earlier efforts were better. I don't like the apparent drop in height in the fourth "frame": it doesn't fit with the story of take-off. The idea of flying into the light is good, though.
Jeremy
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+1
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Well done!
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I think your earlier efforts were better. I don't like the apparent drop in height in the fourth "frame": it doesn't fit with the story of take-off. The idea of flying into the light is good, though.
Jeremy
Unfortunately nature is non-linear ;)
Harald
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Is Photoshopping the bird's position in the name of "Art" allowed? :-\
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Is Photoshopping the bird's position in the name of "Art" allowed? :-\
Of course, art is indulgent.
Harald
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Unfortunately nature is non-linear ;)
That is indubitably true, Harald. It doesn't necessarily mean that it makes good photographs, sadly.
Jeremy
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That is indubitably true, Harald. It doesn't necessarily mean that it makes good photographs, sadly.
Jeremy
There you have a point.
Harald
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Are you guys suggesting that this is not an especially good image because the fourth bird appears out of place
or is there something inherently wrong with the image?
I'm here to learn...gimme some help here. ???
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I think your earlier efforts were better. I don't like the apparent drop in height in the fourth "frame": it doesn't fit with the story of take-off. The idea of flying into the light is good, though.
Jeremy
The bird is just trading some altitude for velocity....reminds me of some of the carrier take off films ;)
Frank
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Are you guys suggesting that this is not an especially good image because the fourth bird appears out of place
or is there something inherently wrong with the image?
I'm here to learn...gimme some help here. ???
For me the picture with the 3rd shot alone would be a very fine one. The series makes it to a study and distracts my attention.
Harald
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Are you guys suggesting that this is not an especially good image because the fourth bird appears out of place
or is there something inherently wrong with the image?
I'm here to learn...gimme some help here. ???
There's nothing inherently wrong with it. It seems to me, though, the fact that the fourth image shows the bird lower than the others spoils the story of take-off: the ascending line is lost. I realise exactly why it's lower (I'm sure Frank's right), but for that reason, the image as a whole doesn't work. I think it would be a better shot without the fourth frame.
Jeremy
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I didn't catch the point for the first second. I thought there were multiple birds. There aren't many physical differences among the first three bird images. I wonder if there would be a way to blur the birds showing movement, maybe one into the other or slow enough so the wings blur to show movement. That way you would see the flight as a composite immediately and would understand this is a movie done in still form. Is there a way to do this so you bracket the shutter speeds so the last is sharp and the earlier ones blurred?
Nice shot.
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Maybe braketing the exposures might give that same effect. The first the lightest, and each subsequent bird darker until the last that is the correct exposure.
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Something like this, perhaps. (I am a terrible person, and I am sorry ;)
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I like the image and the change in altitude doesn't cause any serious problem for me.
I think its a nice idea and I'd keep it.
The only problem I can see here without nitpicking too much is the conflict of messages:
Documentary versus "beautiful bird" image.
Hung at a wall I'd prefer an image with one bird composed well.
In a nature documentary I'd admire the series showing the birds takeoff.
Cheers
~Chris
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It's a really tough audience here...these BIF series images, ranging from 11 merged images down to 3,
are quite popular on other sites and I've yet to see anyone else doing them. Takes all kinds I guess. ;)
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It is a topic of some interest to me how tastes within any given forum converge. Things well received in one place will be panned in another. I'm not sure how much of it is people of similar tastes finding one another, and how much is opinions being formed within the community.
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Something like this, perhaps. (I am a terrible person, and I am sorry ;)
Might have been better if you had remembered the reflection. ;D
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Something like this, perhaps. (I am a terrible person, and I am sorry ;)
And I imagine a vampire bird which has no reflection would indeed combust in daylight. Good one.
Jeremy