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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: stamper on October 30, 2011, 08:42:33 am

Title: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: stamper on October 30, 2011, 08:42:33 am: A sunset over the north end of the Isle of Bute in the Clyde estuary, Scotland. The town of Rothesay - which can't be seen - lies beneath the sunset. Taken from the steamship PS Waverley the last sea going paddle steamer in the world. The last cruise of the season.
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 30, 2011, 01:21:07 pm: Very pretty! The tiny bird definitely adds to it.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: RSL on October 30, 2011, 02:46:43 pm: Very nice, Stamper. But is that a bird or dust on your sensor?
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 30, 2011, 04:19:46 pm: Quote from: RSL on October 30, 2011, 02:46:43 pm
... But is that a bird or dust on your sensor?

Yeah, that is the problem with small birds in the sky... even if they are real, they are easily mistaken for dust. I often clone them out for that reason.
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 30, 2011, 05:35:22 pm: Nice shot, with or without the bird. I'd probably clone it out too, except on a really huge print.

Eric
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: stamper on October 31, 2011, 05:02:23 am: I tried to clone it out because it looks like dust but the direction of the sun's rays made it difficult. Thanks for the feedback.
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: wolfnowl on October 31, 2011, 03:48:55 pm: I'm with Jeremy; I like the bird!

Mike.
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: RSL on October 31, 2011, 06:52:51 pm: I like the bird too, but only in a print that's large enough to make it clear that's a bird, not a dust spot. There's something almost transcendental in that bird at the apex of a sunburst. The picture would lose a lot without the wing of bird.
Title: Re: Sun set on the Clyde
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 31, 2011, 08:50:24 pm: Quote from: RSL on October 31, 2011, 06:52:51 pm
The picture would lose a lot without the wing of bird.
I take it, Russ, that this means that "the wing of bird" can sometimes substitute for "the hand of man." Esecially useful when you can't find a man's hand flying across a sunset. ;)

Eric