anthony whitmo wrote:
LiL,

I'm still not talking to you. You are an bad son. How could you hurt me so. Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects Lil P.S. beautiful shots & I'm still hurt.

Chad made me do it LiL. He's the evil son........... Really and truly he is
Hopefully we will see you this weekend and I can make up for it ........ Heck I'd even let
Ma buy me lunch

thanks LiL Happy new year and look forward to meeting you
Should be a fun day of shooting

Ant

Anthony has officially been forgiven. I've received PM & Saturday it is.... Unless I can get Sunday off as well.....

See you Saturday son. Hope to meet the wife as well.

Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects

Lil

anthony whitmo wrote:
Chad wrote: Hold my spot

Wait a minute let me find my Pediatric Tweezers LMAO

You left them in the rest room last time you took a pee LMAO hey buddy hows it going ?

PS Lil its a big lie... AGAIN! he was supposed to come to FL but dumped me for the southern California group... but he's forgive for that.. the trip was much more enjoyable without all the farting anyway... LMAO

Anthony has officially been forgiven. I've received PM & Saturday it is.... Unless I can get Sunday off as well..... See you Saturday son. Hope to meet the wife as well. Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects Lil

Sounds Good LiL >> I mean that I'm forgiven and all
Hopefully Zoom will be there bright and early >> 7 A.M.
You too??
I'll send you my Cell number

You left them in the rest room last time you took a pee LMAO hey buddy hows it going ?

See... You were wrong again they were in the bedroom .......... oh that doesn't sound
right...............

Hey Chad >> I MISSED YA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAn !!

Welcome back buddy > Sorry I missed the Florida Trip but next year is already in the books.

We should have the entire house in Sarasota so you and the Mrs are welcome to stay
with us!!

Ant

anthony whitmo wrote:
Anthony has officially been forgiven. I've received PM & Saturday it is.... Unless I can get Sunday off as well..... See you Saturday son. Hope to meet the wife as well. Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects Lil

Sounds Good LiL >> I mean that I'm forgiven and all
Hopefully Zoom will be there bright and early >> 7 A.M.
You too??
I'll send you my Cell number



7am I'd have to leave home about 5:45am for that..... hummm can't promise you that but if I can get myself together maybe.....

I'll see what I can do....

Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects

Lil

Well Anthony, these are super Images!!!! Very nice work!!!

Roger,

Geeeeeez these look double nice to me. Your PP IMHO is right on. When you going to come to Chama and visit Wacky roger Founding Member Of OOOPs

Hey thanks Roger and appreciate the PP comment.
Now that I have an invitation I'm thinking tomorrow instead of going to L.A.
SHCfest 09 has begun

Ant

LiL,

I'm leaving at 11 PM tonight and will drive through the night to be there by sunrise tomorrow

Now what was your excuse

Anthony...

it's Thursday.... You want me there Friday or Saturday?

My excuse.... Debilitating headaches 24 hours each day. Mornings are often very bad for me. I tend to be on auto pilot & that's it.

So - Friday or Saturday? hey, you could stop at my house & we'd go to Sepulveda Basin one of the days..... You will be passing my house.

Best wishes for 2009 - I wish for you Golden light & willing subjects

Lil

Karl,

I got them to 'bit' so I guess I should comment So as many times as you reworked these it is like posting about 60 pictures I guess I have said it before, I am not a fan of blue skies, isn't that weird. Don't get me wrong, these shots look fine but blue just bothers me for BG, go figure. For what it's worth, sky #9 to me is spot on. I see sky #4,5 being a bit odd, cyan to me? I will let everyone else help form your opinion on your blues, the only one that is over the top is #7(your 6 ) but the Kestrel more than makes up for that, that is a real nice one! Really fine images Ant, all of them actually. I have scrolled back and forth and left and right and they are very pleasing. Your first KF shot I like best where as the second KF shot I think would look better long rectangle moving up that perch about 3/4 of the way, their is your first '09 Witt-nit Oh, and since you have been gone so long, some 'nitters' have been charging for their services, first one is a freebie baby Now, about a favorite..........mmmmmmmmm, how bout #6, you put some nice real estate in that and I bet you messed with the crop for a while to end up here, well it is a very cool shot with more in it than you usually like to put but that my friend is a nice creation, shadow, perfect burdy, reflection, and pose. All those elements work to make one fine shot you made #5 is a rather powerful pose, that will be hard to duplicate, very neat. Did I say that Kestrel is nice There I kept it short............ I can't believe I still made the first page too!

I have the same problem Karl. Skies give me fits and I fight them and fight them. Unlike
you I do enjoy a beautiful blue background. I think it's purdy

Funny how you were the first one to spot the numbering issue I added a photo
after finishing but before hitting the send button >> Guess I forgot to proof the post before hitting send ....... Good eye buddy !!

I agree with the Kestrel BG it is a bit blue and I redid the BG on this shot 10 times with more or less saturation, changed exposure, changed white balance, and about 10 other things........... I'm done !!! D U N DONE!!! But thanks for your thoughts

Skies 4 and 5 are dead on ......... Get some glasses old man (Kidding)

I GOT THE BLUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES BABY

I cropped 6 one time and this was it. This was a heavy heavy heavy crop and I didn't want both full reflections in the shot to deter from the main subject........ Good thinking there huh

Thanks for your well thought out kind critique my friend.......

Now let's see if Chad can actually ad something constructive for a change
I may be asking to much

Ant

Brenton Biggs,

Well Anthony, these are super Images!!!! Very nice work!!!

Thanks Brenton I appreciate that very much

Happy New Year

Ant

Chad,

PS Lil its a big lie... AGAIN! he was supposed to come to FL but dumped me for the southern California group... but he's forgive for that.. the trip was much more enjoyable without all the farting anyway... LMAO

Yours or Mine

anthony whitmo wrote:
Now let's see if Chad can actually ad something constructive for a change


Nice blue sky... on one of them LMAO you figure out what one

finally, and congrats on the KF.
As you know about the skies......slight level adjustments will
alter that blue very easily, so if you have a series in the same area
suggest pp for sky consistency and then selectively take care of
your subject. These skies look quite good IMO except for the cyan looking one
in #4......looks like some blue desat was done and left that behind. Not a good idea
to use hue/sat on skies, the hue mix is too complicated. Better IMO to use a levels
adj on the skies, usually just bringing in the high side after colorbalance is done

Seems you may have oversharpened #7 a bit.

I like those belted KF a bunch....got more?

Good luck with your calibration

I'm at the river house and can't comment on the colors as I'm using my laptop. For what it is worth colors look generally good and doesn't appear to be any problem with them . The only problem I see is with the photographer. JK The Kestrel and the KF look great. I found the angle on the Falcon a bit too steep, but that is the way it is. Beautiful detail in the Hummer.
Socrate

BC infected by Antz - I wonder if Antibiotics would fix that

You got a couple of keepers on this set. I let you have all the fun on #6 and will let you take all the glory, even if I have about 10 shots for the same location that probably blow yours away - I was more interested in the good burds we got that
day

Beware of the monstor Hummer - on my screen it looks like it's about 10x nornal size - Wow!

I see some of your best stuff came from the afternoon trip out to BC where you got some great shots of the paparazzi loving peregrine and the killer Harrier - both captured nicely.

I think the Kestrel is over sharpend a tad and that is a very interesting crop decision

Fun Stuff Ant. If you decide to come down I'll show you the secret yak country that no one else ever exploits - Osprey and harriers almost gauranteed.... If not this weekend then the next good weather break if you're up for it.

Zm Zm


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anthony whitmo wrote:
Roger,

Geeeeeez these look double nice to me. Your PP IMHO is right on. When you going to come to Chama and visit Wacky roger Founding Member Of OOOPs

Hey thanks Roger and appreciate the PP comment.
Now that I have an invitation I'm thinking tomorrow instead of going to L.A.
SHCfest 09 has begun

Ant


Should I expect to see you tomorrow evening then

Hey Ant... Happy New Year man!

It was a total blast getting to shoot with you... you can crash our picnic anytime buddy.
Glad you finally got calibrated, these look f-ANT-astic on my uncalibrated laptop...

Absolutely sick detail and color on King Hummer.
Very nice shotz of the welcoming committee... great pose in #3.
PF Flyer in #4 is excellent... nicely exposed, super sharp, great eye contact... bomb.com dude.
Love that golden light in #5... sweet moment there, great detail.
I like #6 a lot... would like it even better if you cropped it about mid-mud... Karla -nit.
Kestrel is a beauty... congrats on the first!
KF's are awesome, loooooove the first one... No IF's Not to worry, I got those with my Nikon gear.
Nice work on the PF chillin'... maybe next time he'll come down and take a closer look at the Antman.
Excellent series man... keep 'em coming...

Kirk

P.S. Can't wait to see your CWW's... Bad Zoom... very bad Zoom...

Hey it was worth the wait Ant, awesome job on all of these. And it appears the L.A. group survived the Antattack. The hummer and the kestrel are super, but I reserve my favourite for both of the kingfisher shots. Very nice.

Rob

Hi Anthony,

Super shots. Enjoyed them all. My very favorites are: #5, 7, 11 & the Kingfishers. Thanks for sharing.

Ant,

I was wondering when you would post the shots from your trip to So.CA
and after I saw all these stunning images, I bet 7 hour drive to So.CA was
worh it! It's hard to pick my favorite but #5 is my pic.

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Ok here is my sincere C&C to help ya buddy.

Too many crops with the subject being on the left or lower left of the image, if you have too many facing subjects to the right try flopping the image in PS and have them face to the left great trick (I used this in my sucky spoonbill post)

Falcon is nice and sharp (on the breast feathers that is) next time focus on the head, also, too low of perspective for me.. sorry... if you have to tap your focus point with the joystick. I know you liked playing with my joystick in YS. LMAO

Hi Ant, great series.
I like the monster hummer and the falcons the best.
Very careful brilliant PP with lots details and smooth tones.
Nothing wrong with the sky on my (calibrated with Eye-One) monitors: all hues of blue you've presented are acceptable ...
-mirek