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Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:09 pm**

When your best shot was taken through half inch glass

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=478

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:12 pm**

You wouldn't realise that by the photo

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:13 pm**

Obviously, a shot glass.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:14 pm**

I would say that it was just as well. :wink:

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:14 pm**

mind you it would have beem a worse day without the glass there

how would you guys crop this?

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=477

this was my effort

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=479

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:18 pm**

Give me the protective glass anyday...

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:22 pm**

i just relised i posted this in general discussion can someone move it

(THANKS)

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:22 pm**

You should have not mentioned the glass and we would have all thought you a hero - nice shot

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:24 pm**

sirhc55 wrote:You should have not mentioned the glass and we would have all thought you a hero - nice shot

i have plenty from south africa with lions and no glass but everyone calls me a fool not a hero

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:37 pm**

zeb00 wrote:how would you guys crop this?

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=477

this was my effort

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=479

I don't mind the crop but I'm no cropping expert as well. Maybe try a portrait crop.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:17 pm**

another photo but again i was struggling with lighting im not sure if a bit of fill flash would have helped here

http://www.kpalbum.com/image.php?id=476

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:49 pm**

zeb00
There is no glass there. It was removed the day before and that part of the zoo was supposed to be closed to visitors. :lol:

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:00 pm**

Had a look at cropping the bird in a 2:3 aspect ratio (so vertical/potrait orientation). Looks good but it would of been better if the bird was looking away from the perch.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:04 pm**

Matt. K wrote:zeb00
There is no glass there. It was removed the day before and that part of the zoo was supposed to be closed to visitors.

i was woundering why it was looking so fat

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:11 pm**

Zeb, I like your crop of the bird. I like the dof and the bird looking back at the perch.

Maybe with the critter you could have zoomed in a bit closer. You could do it with a crop but you'd loose quality.

Cheers

John

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:19 pm**

Nice shot of the parrot. For the cropping, Id try and get it so that the wall to the left is missing, possibly a bit more space off to the left, and then see if I could get part of the wood (the top edge?) leading in from the bottom right-hand corner.

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:22 pm**

johnd: unfortunatly that meercat was taken with a 105mm macro lens because my only other option was the 70-300G which i am not happy with at the moment (soon to be replaced with a 80-400 vr) so it is allready cropped quite alot.

robboh: sounds good i will try that next time i am at home

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:12 pm**

Your crop of the parrot was good IMHO... nice lead in along the branch

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:12 pm**

MHD wrote:Your crop of the parrot was good IMHO... nice lead in along the branch

Thats where I was going with as well, but trying to get the branch to lead in from the corner more.

I've just had a go at what I was thinking of and it just doesnt work as well as the way Zeb00 has done it. He's got the bird nicely positioned regards 3rds. I found that to make the branch lead in right from the corner cramps the bird too much in the corner and makes the branch too prominent in the pic in 3:2 ratio pic. You can do it in a 4:3 (or a square) but Ive personally never liked the 'feel' of those ratios as much as 3:2.

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