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Dave Cornish
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p.1 #1 · an "artistic" attempt

first attempt at being a little more dramatic. trying new things.

does this work you guys?

1/500s f/5.0 at 300.0mm iso640 shot late in the evening

added this one too. natural background here. no ps blur or colorizing.
1/100s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso640 also shot late into the evening

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Jul 07, 2009 at 07:54 AM

Johnny Bravo
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p.1 #2 · an "artistic" attempt

Niether works for me. The first one isn't particularly dramatic--you might try hammering it in photoshop to see if you can get something more interesting.

The second one suffers from inadequate depth of field to work for me. I could live with the oof foreground, but the oof beak is distracting.

Jul 07, 2009 at 11:23 AM

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p.1 #3 · an "artistic" attempt

pic #1 is beautiful . i love how the light hits the bird did you plan that?or did you just take a picture?

Jul 07, 2009 at 01:43 PM

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p.1 #4 · an "artistic" attempt

Kudos for trying something different. #1 is not to my taste, most times a bird won't look look good in nearly complete shadow. Second almost makes it, but I'm with Johnny about the beak.

Jul 07, 2009 at 01:50 PM

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p.1 #5 · an "artistic" attempt

Nice attempts, it's hard to get out of the mold, and it's even harder to get out of the mold and make it work. I have to agree with the others, the shots don't do much for me. On the positive side, you got closer to that CWW than most I've seen around here.

Jul 07, 2009 at 04:34 PM

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p.1 #6 · an "artistic" attempt

Nice tries Dave and always worth pushing the boundaries so keep it up.
#1 does not work for me as I can't see what you are trying to achieve.
# 2 has some potential I think which comes from the eye and the reflection in it. Maybe a much tighter crop with the out of focus beak being much more over to the left and less of a point of interest.
Martin

Jul 07, 2009 at 06:34 PM

Dave Cornish
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p.1 #7 · an "artistic" attempt

thanks for the honest replies guys, appreciate it. ill take the comments here and use them next time i mess around with new things

Jul 07, 2009 at 09:20 PM

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p.1 #8 · an "artistic" attempt

It's always nice to try new things and equally nice if you share the results

If a "dramatic" picture was your goal than you did not succeed IMO but both captures are really nice.

Jul 07, 2009 at 11:47 PM

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p.1 #9 · an "artistic" attempt

Love the colors in #2.

Jul 10, 2009 at 06:04 AM


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