Motif: Herring Gull

Posted by JeanH on Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:08 pm

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by Laura Stiefel on Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:27 pm

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Hi Jean,

A very nice Motif contribution!

I think this would also work well with a large amount of the water cropped out making this a horizontal presentation.

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by Colin Inman on Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:13 pm

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Nicely captured moment.
I like the crop suggestion, although it seems a shame to loose all that lovely blue bg.
On the other hand I guess images like this with "empty space" could be more valuable commercially - somewhere to put the text in an advert.

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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:36 pm

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Jean,

This is very nice. I like the preening pose and the blue water background. Laura's crop suggestion would improve the composition.

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by Alan Murphy on Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:33 pm

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Nice shot. I agree that a horizontal might be better.

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by Rob Palmer on Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:49 pm

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Ditto on the cropping. Nice and sharp with beautiful light.

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by Chris Kayler on Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:08 pm

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Agree w/ the cropping as well. Nice shot.

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by KK Hui on Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:03 pm

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Another vote for a horizontal presentation here ...
Some tech/shooting data may help too.

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by Mike Wilson on Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:47 pm

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A nice image showing this behavior. The low position of the camera is ideal and the water bg is just great. I would crop this to a horizontal placing the bird on the left side of the frame since it is looking back towards the right side.

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