*OFFICIAL* Snapshot of the Day (one image per post please) #1

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

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As far as your second picture is concerned I would differ with Dave and probably crop the photo to include only the rock he is sitting on and the sea to the left and above the subject...that would focus the shot on the man fishing and the sea only. IMO the green algae of the rocks behind detract from the photo...just my .02

I think that we DO agree. I meant that he should either crop more agressively or get the whole rock in. He clipped off a bit of the rock and it looks like an accident now.

The algae doesn't bother me in the least, but I do think that a strong crop of the man and water in front of him would have been more powerful than as is.

Dave

[TL]

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge by GQjai, on Flickr

[dcstep]

Nice one TL.

[dcstep]

There are some technical imperfections in this shot, BUT action always trumps technicalities:


Bad morning to be a chipmunk... by dcstep, on Flickr

Shot with my 7D and 500mm, plus the 1.4x TC, hand held at 1/1600-second, f/5.6 and ISO 800.

Dave

[adrean8j]

Originally Posted by dcstep

I think that we DO agree. I meant that he should either crop more agressively or get the whole rock in. He clipped off a bit of the rock and it looks like an accident now.

The algae doesn't bother me in the least, but I do think that a strong crop of the man and water in front of him would have been more powerful than as is.

Dave

Gotcha

To the OP it still is a nice picture though for sure

[TL]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Nice one TL.

thanks Dave. --Tim

[The1]

nice shots folks.

I tryed to clean up the fisherman picture, but with the low quality jpeg, there was really no helping it.

Another nice night shot TL

Dave, you're always at the right place at the right time it seems!

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by dcstep

There are some technical imperfections in this shot, BUT action always trumps technicalities:

Dave

I've heard of flying squirrels...not chipmunks. Nice action shot...

Tim...I think I like this shot better than the one you have posted in the night thread. Little more action with the lights on the water

[panicos81]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Your problem with color is white balance ("WB"), which is almost always a problem with this type water shot. If you shoot in RAW then when converting to jpeg you can adjust WB by taking a point on a medium grey spot, like his hat or the bucket shadow (or whatever that white thing is to his left). If your software doesn't allow for that, then you can move the sliders, usually reducing the blue channel a little (RGB means Red-Blue-Green in case you didn't realize it). This kind of shot exemplifies why you should shoot in RAW. The camera almost always gets WB wrong in these conditions. You can still work with WB on a jpeg, but RAW gives you more adjustment range.

I like your composition here better than with the ship, but I would have probably gotten the whole of the big rock into the shot. You cut off just a little behind the fisherman. When you cut off a little it look unintentional, when you cut off a lot it looks like you meant it.


Keep it up.

Dave

Originally Posted by adrean8j

I agree with Dave on the shooting in RAW mode so you can correct white balance issues in PP. There is also a way to correct for WB in camera IF you have the white balance cards and force the camera to shoot white as you want it to.

As far as your second picture is concerned I would differ with Dave and probably crop the photo to include only the rock he is sitting on and the sea to the left and above the subject...that would focus the shot on the man fishing and the sea only. IMO the green algae of the rocks behind detract from the photo...just my .02

Originally Posted by dcstep

I think that we DO agree. I meant that he should either crop more agressively or get the whole rock in. He clipped off a bit of the rock and it looks like an accident now.

The algae doesn't bother me in the least, but I do think that a strong crop of the man and water in front of him would have been more powerful than as is.

Dave

thank you guys for all your comments and advices.
i didnt crop the fisherman (or the boat) at all really, the second rock was by accident, actually the sea there is like a gulf and if i turned the camera more to the left to hide the one rock i would have had land on the other side and i wanted the fisherman to open seas. so crop should have been my choice here..
i will try some more editing see whats happens..
anw i'm learning a lot of staff from you guys and your constructive comments so thank you very much..

TL my god man, excellent shot, you are my idol

[M_Six]

Ouch!! Getting grabbed by a hawk is bad enough, but getting grabbed by the face??

Great shot, Dave.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Ouch!! Getting grabbed by a hawk is bad enough, but getting grabbed by the face??

Great shot, Dave.

Thanks.

The first thing he ate was the head and then the guts.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

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Dave, you're always at the right place at the right time it seems!

Thanks.

Actually, just so the noobs know, that kind of shot comes from training your lens on dozens of perched hawks, hoping that they'll come up with a catch AND the light'll be right AND they'll fly at you instead of away, etc., etc. I got that shot after only about 10-minutes of waiting that particular morning, but it was probably one-in-fifty tries. Some of the dry runs involved 45-minutes of waiting with no result other than tail feathers.

The two biggest tools in the nature photographer's bag are, knowing the subject's likely behaviour and patience. A not too distant third tool is luck. It's a bit like fishing.

Dave

[The1]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Thanks.

Actually, just so the noobs know, that kind of shot comes from training your lens on dozens of perched hawks, hoping that they'll come up with a catch AND the light'll be right AND they'll fly at you instead of away, etc., etc. I got that shot after only about 10-minutes of waiting that particular morning, but it was probably one-in-fifty tries. Some of the dry runs involved 45-minutes of waiting with no result other than tail feathers.

The two biggest tools in the nature photographer's bag are, knowing the subject's likely behaviour and patience. A not too distant third tool is luck. It's a bit like fishing.

Dave

also helps that you live in an area with lots of wildlife.

I'm going to have to make my way out there one of these days, I need to save some money first before doing that though.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

also helps that you live in an area with lots of wildlife.

I'm going to have to make my way out there one of these days, I need to save some money first before doing that though.

I'd love to host you. I use my M3 as a shooting blind.

My Flickr friends in Mississauga and Etobicoke post lots of wildlife. Where are you in Ontario?

Dave

[The1]

Originally Posted by dcstep

I'd love to host you. I use my M3 as a shooting blind.

My Flickr friends in Mississauga and Etobicoke post lots of wildlife. Where are you in Ontario?

Dave

I'm kitchener/Waterloo area. Planning a boat trip up into north Georgian Bay towards august, so i'll have some opportunities around then.

If i were in Toronto, it would be pretty easy to find some wildlife i think with heading straight north, or even north east. But where I am, it's a lot of farm fields and such. There's a few preserves, but they are all man made, and basically feature lots of red shouldered back birds.... but there are millions of those and aren't too special

When my dad gave me a tour about in Colorado, it was amizing how much wildlife you come across within about an hour almost any direction of Denver. Wish i knew more of what i was doing with a camera back then. Would have had more fun for sure!

I'll make sure to look you up if i'm headed back out that way in the near future. I really want to see the inland dunes....

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

I'm kitchener/Waterloo area. Planning a boat trip up into north Georgian Bay towards august, so i'll have some opportunities around then.

If i were in Toronto, it would be pretty easy to find some wildlife i think with heading straight north, or even north east. But where I am, it's a lot of farm fields and such. There's a few preserves, but they are all man made, and basically feature lots of red shouldered back birds.... but there are millions of those and aren't too special

When my dad gave me a tour about in Colorado, it was amizing how much wildlife you come across within about an hour almost any direction of Denver. Wish i knew more of what i was doing with a camera back then. Would have had more fun for sure!

I'll make sure to look you up if i'm headed back out that way in the near future. I really want to see the inland dunes....

I haven't been to the dunes yet and really want to go. A friend of mine, Bob Rozinski, has a great coffee table book available that you should check out. He's at www.dancingpelican.com

Well, whereever you have the grasses and cattails you'll have the red-winged blackbirds. They're all over here, but, like the all too common mallards and Canada geese, I ignor them most of the time.

My main haunt is a manmade nature preserve, right in a Denver suburb. Its mature enough that it's got everything appropriate for this biozone. I occasionally get annoyed hearing 500-hp speedboats on the lake and gun lovers shooting their 357-magnums, but the wildlife don't seem to care.

Sometimes I can't resist the Canada geese, like below:


Gooslings being cute. by dcstep, on Flickr

[The1]

haha, that one is definitely posing for you!

and i'll check out that link.

[gary88]

[The1]

clean...

[Weebl]

Dave,
In focus or not that action trumps. Congratulations on that, I think I only have one heron and one egret with a meal.

Panicos, is the fisherman coming up really purple on your screen? The shadow on the bucket is showing purple which means your changes in LR were off. See if you can borrow a screen calibration thingy it helps.
Good shot of the Pearl.

[TL]

Originally Posted by The1

Another nice night shot TL

Dave, you're always at the right place at the right time it seems!

[QUOTE=ShopVac;9871871

Tim...I think I like this shot better than the one you have posted in the night thread. Little more action with the lights on the water[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by panicos81

TL my god man, excellent shot, you are my idol

thanks guys

[- Paul -]

One of their brothers - other side of the pond!


Baby Gosling by PRotography EU, on Flickr