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Gentoo penguins

Postby DaveB on Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:55 pm

Not sure about this one.

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Usually I leave my "natural history" images untouched, but figured I'd experiment with cleaning up the background:
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Do you have a preference?
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby biggerry on Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:19 pm

Do you have a preference?


either all or none :wink: With all the penguins in there gives it more context, removing all *might* isolate the main subject some more. However I found when looking at both images i barely noticed the missing penguins since i was drawn more to the main subject in both - thats me though....I would also consider looking at a tighter crop to give more emphasis on the penguin. hth.

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Makes me wonder if the Gentoo penguin shares the high performance characteristics... :wink:
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby photohiker on Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:07 pm

biggerry wrote:Makes me wonder if the Gentoo penguin shares the high performance characteristics... :wink:


Well, I guess they 'emerge' :) Are their make flags configurable?

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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby big pix on Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:11 pm

...... prefer the first.....

lonely, comes to mind :wink:
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby colin_12 on Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:29 pm

I agree with Gerry on the all or none.
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby biggerry on Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:34 pm

Are their make flags configurable?

:rotfl2: that just conjured up a whole lot of strange images for me just then...trying to associate compiling with a real life penguin :shock:
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:31 am

David you are the master of nature photos! :bowdown:

:agree: with the others

I would further suggest keeping/adding OOF pengos to the last photo (two of them) to make the whole picture sort of Y shaped... it would be nice if the OOF ones could walk obliquely towards the main subject.

just my two cents.
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Re: Gentoo penguins

Postby gstark on Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:23 am

DaveB wrote:Not sure about this one.



Dave,

This is a tough call. The basic image is sound, as you know, but I agree that it feels unfinished in some way, but not in any way that one readily put one's finger on.

Usually I leave my "natural history" images untouched, but figured I'd experiment with cleaning up the background:


Rather than cloning, why not try cropping? It seems to me that you might be able to crop from each side and the top to achieve a similar goal of removing those extraneous elements, but I'm not sure that this would addres the fundamental issue of "unsatisfaction" that I'm getting from the basic image.
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