the eye

RandySmugMug · February 28, 2007

CookieS · February 28, 2007

Very Pretty, the left side maybe could be cropped a bit but lovely bird and great clarity.

Swartzy · February 28, 2007

I don't know Randy
but looks to me like you have a great eye

. Nice shot. Always enjoy your images! Love the concept of black on the left upper and orange all around...but the viewer's eye is totally drawn to the the eye of the bird. Excellent choice and composition. Thanks for sharing....really cool idea! Keep up the great work (as of course you will).

CatOne · February 28, 2007

The eye is "bullseyed" and I'm a bit distracted by the fact that I initially focus there, and then am drawn to the dark area, and the feathers in the background, and I wander around the frame.

When I was on the Antarctic trip last week I saw an image from Seth Resnick when he talked about getting close. He took a closeup of something, it was cropped about like this:

Which I prefer as the crop of your photo. Though the advice was to get closer (for a bird, this would mean a longer lens, as they tend to not allow you to get that close). This crop is just a bit tight, but the key is to have no "space" behind the head. He says to avoid "triangles" in the corners of your frames, as they indicate you didn't get close enough.

RandySmugMug · March 1, 2007

Swartzy wrote:

but looks to me like you have a great eye. Nice shot. Always enjoy your images! Love the concept of black on the left upper and orange all around...but the viewer's eye is totally drawn to the the eye of the bird. Excellent choice and composition. Thanks for sharing....really cool idea! Keep up the great work (as of course you will).

thx Swarty

RandySmugMug · March 1, 2007

CookieS wrote:

Very Pretty, the left side maybe could be cropped a bit but lovely bird and great clarity.

thx Cookie

Skippy · March 1, 2007

RandySmugMug wrote:

Hi Randy ... man that colour of this amazing bird is like "WOW"
Is that close to a true colour? or did you tweak it to be that colour

...... Great Shot

.... Skippy
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RandySmugMug · March 1, 2007

Skippy wrote:

Hi Randy ... man that colour of this amazing bird is like "WOW"
Is that close to a true colour? or did you tweak it to be that colour
...... Great Shot .... Skippy
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thx Skippy....i can't rememeber 4 sure...i suspect i teaked it some but not alot cause the orange would blow easy

Dick on Aruba · March 1, 2007

Strong picture! I would crop just left from the neck to the right edge of the frame. The edge of the neck make the Flamingo more obvious. Just my $0.02

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

RandySmugMug · March 2, 2007

Dick on Aruba wrote:

Strong picture! I would crop just left from the neck to the right edge of the frame. The edge of the neck make the Flamingo more obvious. Just my $0.02

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

thx dick

Dennis Kaczor · March 3, 2007

Just amazing, love the details and sharpness in this image that you have taken. You can tell that this bird has an eye opened for you.

Again nice image

RandySmugMug · March 4, 2007

Dennis Kaczor wrote:

Just amazing, love the details and sharpness in this image that you have taken. You can tell that this bird has an eye opened for you.

Again nice image

thx Dennis

ShepsMom · March 4, 2007

I don't like color orange much, but this orange just about to blew me away!!

All i can say is WOWZEEEE!!! What a great composition and sharpness, wonderful work!

dbaker1221 · March 4, 2007

love the photo...your shots are always great

RandySmugMug · March 6, 2007

ShepsMom wrote:

I don't like color orange much, but this orange just about to blew me away!! All i can say is WOWZEEEE!!! What a great composition and sharpness, wonderful work!

thx Marina

RandySmugMug · March 6, 2007

dbaker1221 wrote:

love the photo...your shots are always great

thx db

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