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Posted by Paul Skoczylas on Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:13 pm

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I don't have any technicals handy for this (it's on Fuji slide film--Velvia, Sensia, or Provia...) I took it early in the summer at Elk Island National Park--this was the evening of the lunar eclipse, but it was cloudy and wet, so we didn't get any moon shots.

I took this because I was intrigued by the textures in the decaying bone. (I'm not sure they show up as well in this version as they do in the slide.) How would you shoot something like this to have nicer composition as well?

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:20 pm
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Interesting shot - a little bit of magenta on the bone though.
 

by TSparger on Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:35 pm
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I agree with E.J. and I would also add that if it was the texture on the bone that you were interested in, a closeup of the bone without all the grass around it might have been interesting.
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by Harvey Edelman on Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:20 pm
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The two things that I would have mentioned, already have been :) . There's the magenta cast on the bone which is easily remedied and more importantly, there's just too much grass to really focus on the bone. An extreme crop would probably add a lot more interest here IMHO.
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by Paul Skoczylas on Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:25 pm
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I'm going to have to go double check the slide. But I'm pretty sure the bone did have a colour cast of its own...

If I have time, I'll try going back to the original file and cropping more to see if that can bring out the textures. I've never seen that type of "flaky" texture to bone before.

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by Tim Grams on Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:39 pm
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I agree with the others, a close up would have been more effective. The texture is interesting, particularly on the right side.

No doubt if you'd have had your trusty goldie with, it would have been very interested in this bone also. :wink: My black lab would have certainly grab it in a heart beat.
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by Carol Clarke on Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:42 am
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Another vote for more of a close up of this shot Paul.

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by Paul Skoczylas on Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:15 am
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Let's try this then:
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by Carol Clarke on Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:45 am
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Yes, that certainly works better for me - more dramatic as a close up!

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by Matt Cox on Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:02 pm
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Paul, I too agree that it's better as reposted. I think another compositional option to make an interesting shot would have been to place the subject diagnonally across the frame, rather than horizontal. And it looks like there may be some real interesting patterns on that bone to photograph as macro.
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by Alexandre Vaz on Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:53 pm
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I like the wider approach but I think (don't know why?) I would like to see the image presented vertically, rotating CCW 90º.
 

by Bill Keown on Wed Nov 05, 2003 8:53 pm
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My .02 worth - The wider angle view is just a bone, interesting but just a bone none the less. That's probably because I've seen lots of them in the tundra. The close up view has a lot more interest to me as I can now see the textures and patterns.

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by NDCheryl on Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:25 pm
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Paul,

I too prefer the tighter crop on the bone. It makes the texture stand out a lot more.
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