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Postby TC on Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:14 pm

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Lorikeets have been visiting our backyard.
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Postby Bandit on Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:31 pm

Far from me to give any critique, as I am just a novice, but a great photo
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Postby RichardW on Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:41 pm

Great composition and very sharp. Well captured.
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Postby Bluebell on Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:18 am

Lovely picture. :D
The leaves frame him well, and the background is nicely out of focus.
The only suggestion is to maybe crop the out of focus flower on the bottom edge as it doesn't add to the picture.
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Postby moz on Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:15 am

I like it, it grabs my eye nicely.

I would be tempted to try cropping the left and bottom edges to remove the OOF flowers, but I'm not convinced it's a huge improvement. I'd need to see both side by side.
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Postby big pix on Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:21 pm

very good image of one of my favourite subjects....... have you had a look at taking a little off the top to make the bird stand out more......
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Postby Bindii on Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:43 pm

Bandit wrote:Far from me to give any critique, as I am just a novice, but a great photo


I think that novice critiques count just as much as crits from those that have a better idea of what they are doing.. after all the pro's are still trying to please the general public with their images and its always nice to know whether or not an image is appealing to people or not.. :)

Btw.. I think the shot is great.. really good dof there with the bird being so sharp and the background dropping away nicely... colours are good too... love the way he is looking at you! :)
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Postby matt-chops on Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:22 pm

Thats a beautifully composed shot and the DOF really is spot on. I do agree with the above comments that it may benefit from a crop to the bottom and left to remove the out of focus foreground flowers. Either way though, beautiful shot with brilliant execution. :D
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Postby TC on Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:48 pm

thanks everyone for the comments.
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a more tight cropped.
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Postby Bandit on Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:12 pm

1st pic of those two looks much better than the original, amazing what a bit of cropping can do!
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Postby jethro on Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:56 pm

Can't get much better than these. WOW!

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Postby Matt. K on Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:09 pm

More WOW! Excellent photography!
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Postby ewm3 on Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:10 pm

Looks good (damn good) to me! I agree that cropping the OOF areas helps - but not too much - it takes away from the beauty of the overall picture.
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