I am ruthless when going through my shots, anything that is oof or too distant for detail gets deleted but I wonder if I would get away with this one:
Shay.
Hey Shay,
That's a keeper. The sky and the clouds are good and the ducks flying in from the right side work well. It would have been nicer to get in closer to them but sometimes they don't cooperate. Have you tried a closer crop?
Harry http://behret.smugmug.com/NANPA member How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
a little rotation, a little cloning
this was a fun shot to play with. as is, out of the camera, it's not so interesting to me. so i increased the canvas size, rotated (i was going for a jaunty angle, accented by the cloud line.... and i had to clone in a bit more clouds..., cloned some sky and clouds (really easy to clone sky and clouds, so this is good practice if you're not used to major cloning...) and then cropped at 3:2 aspect ratio.
tip on cloning: i always clone in a separate layer, that way it's easy to use a layer mask to undo parts of the cloning if need be.
i feel like this shot now, i'm above these birds, watching them fly.. i better fly faster, to catch up!
That's a keeper. The sky and the clouds are good and the ducks flying in from the right side work well. It would have been nicer to get in closer to them but sometimes they don't cooperate. Have you tried a closer crop?
thanks Harry, I don't have room to crop anymore, it's nearly a 100% crop.
this was a fun shot to play with. as is, out of the camera, it's not so interesting to me. so i increased the canvas size, rotated (i was going for a jaunty angle, accented by the cloud line.... and i had to clone in a bit more clouds..., cloned some sky and clouds (really easy to clone sky and clouds, so this is good practice if you're not used to major cloning...) and then cropped at 3:2 aspect ratio.
tip on cloning: i always clone in a separate layer, that way it's easy to use a layer mask to undo parts of the cloning if need be.
i feel like this shot now, i'm above these birds, watching them fly.. i better fly faster, to catch up!
(my edit of image by shay)
(shay's original)
Thanks Andy, I like your take, I have to go back to reading Kelby's book now
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That's a keeper. The sky and the clouds are good and the ducks flying in from the right side work well. It would have been nicer to get in closer to them but sometimes they don't cooperate. Have you tried a closer crop?
http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
this was a fun shot to play with. as is, out of the camera, it's not so interesting to me. so i increased the canvas size, rotated (i was going for a jaunty angle, accented by the cloud line.... and i had to clone in a bit more clouds..., cloned some sky and clouds (really easy to clone sky and clouds, so this is good practice if you're not used to major cloning...) and then cropped at 3:2 aspect ratio.
tip on cloning: i always clone in a separate layer, that way it's easy to use a layer mask to undo parts of the cloning if need be.
i feel like this shot now, i'm above these birds, watching them fly.. i better fly faster, to catch up!
(my edit of image by shay)
(shay's original)
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