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Christoph C. Feldhaim

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Meet The Crow !
« on: March 14, 2014, 05:11:58 pm »

A crow from todays stroll in the park
Cheers
~Chris

EDIT: Images updated with better cropping enabled ;)


Meet The Crow No.1





Meet The Crow No.2





Meet The Crow No.3





Meet The Crow No.4


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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2014, 12:44:02 am »

Incredibly intelligent animals!

Nice shots, too!!  :)

Mike.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2014, 03:05:24 am »

Neat set of images. You express the crows character beautifully.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2014, 03:17:44 am »

Thanks to both, for the nice words.

This was a stalking job with the crows being terribly aware of my presence.
I was moving slowly like a snail all the time to not scare them away.

I used flash to add a little light to the foreground, but most of the time they were too far away to be in reach.
I wished to have had an additional tele thingy for the flash.

With my tele being a 300 mm equivalent I still had to crop, because I couldn't get nearer.

After all it was a helluva fun.

Cheers
~Chris

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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2014, 07:15:58 am »

I like 2 and 3 best.  The soft white background on 2 contrasts well with the feathers and really brings out the texture.  On the other hand, the out of focus texture of the background in 3 feels a bit like a mirror of the feather textures.  This looks like a series that would really be worth pursuing much further.  The personality of the birds is really appealing.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2014, 09:14:20 am »

These have many of the great qualities of your zoo series. For some reason, however, I find myself wanting to see the whole animal in this case.

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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2014, 09:55:38 am »

The cropping was a tough decision.
I somehow felt doubt about cutting off a part of the bird,
but I wanted the head and especially the eye not being at the border of the image and
I also wanted a zoom factor sufficient to keep it a portrait-like image.
So I had to crop.

Cheers
~Chris

EDIT: Just for educational purposes I added two alternate cropping solutions - judge for yourself ! - ~Chris
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2014, 12:53:10 pm »

A very nice set, Chris. And I think your original portrait cropping is the best.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2014, 02:07:57 pm »

I agree.  I like the tighter cropping.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2014, 05:37:43 pm »

I also wanted a zoom factor sufficient to keep it a portrait-like image.

Thanks, Chris. I suspected this was the case.
Just print them big;)

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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2014, 07:12:45 pm »

I think the crow would be better off if you were to use the right edge of first set and the left of the second set.
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2014, 09:44:13 am »

sort of like
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Re: Meet The Crow !
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2014, 01:51:02 pm »

I re-thought/felt all the possibilities and decided to change the cropping for the first three images.
They are in my original post.
For reference I am posting here the old , original crops, which are now obsolete.
Basically I decided to decide between either a full body portrait (1 and 2) or a zoomed in portrait, which doesn't look castrated then (3).
Great input from Bruce and I think it was a classical "I want to have everything" problem.
Thanks !
Cheers
~Chris
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