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Ted ellis wrote:
BB, Love your narrative and enjoyed viewing this thread. I have enjoyed your posts over the summer and have seen excellent growth in your photography. I especially appreciate your tenacity. You want to get better, we all should and most do. First step in getting better is shoot, shoot, shoot and shoot some more (your tenacity).
You have a nice collection of poses and some of which are standouts. The standouts ( great IQ and "POP") IMO are 2, 7, 14 and 16 (Hang 'em). I love the poses of #3-6 and 8. These are "almost". There is some fine quality in each but not enough.
#03: Hummers are always on the lookout from attack which frequently comes from above. There is excellent IQ except at the top of the head and most importantly the eye. (Selective sharpening would help and that which you can't control more eye ).
#04: I love this pose but there is too much of the bird OOF either because of short DOF and/or motion blur ( f-stop, faster ss, ISO).
#05: Frontal hummer shots are hard for most to appreciate and most of the time it comes down to the hummer giving you a slight head turn either way. It does have some lack of detail issues.
#06: I love this pose. Comments, same as #4.
#08: I love this pose a lot. Comments, same as # 4 and 6.
#09-13 These images IMO do not compare to the fine quality of #2, 7, 14 & 16. Some of the issues on these images, the shooting angle, DOF and crops.
Please BB do not take my critique as anything more that my attempt to help you get better. The first few years here, I posted some real "kaka". Your first 9-months here are far better than my first 9-months here. Many here helped me improve over the years and still do.
Keep up the good work, I look forward to viewing more of your photography.
Ted
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Ted,
Thank you very much. I appreciate your CC! Every comment is important. You never stop learning.
Every comment you made is absolutely correct. As you pointed out, some of the pictures are better than others. I put them up for a reason.
Stories are very important. Every picture you take, every image you make, should tell a story. All humans crave a story. That is how we connect. It is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. So that is why I included the images that are not as good … they are part of the story. Think of them as filler
I also know I need to get better at some things. PM sent.
Thank you so much Ted!
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