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Eye of the Cassowary

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Eye of the Cassowary

Postby xerubus on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:36 pm

Please critique the buggery out of this shot... trying something a little different and would like some honest critique... don't hold back...

http://www.nikonaustralia.com/gallery/album02/cassowary

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Postby Dargan on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:43 pm

Positively alien looking crop draws your eye in to confront the bird. I love the richness of the colours and detail, can't work out the pink background though. I can't think of anything critical about it. Well done.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:48 pm

I agree there is a richness of colour that is attractive. A great shot to work on in PS i.e. changing the colour of eye

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Postby xerubus on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:50 pm

thanks guys... very interesting bird... btw.. that's full frame.. no cropping
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Postby dooda on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:52 pm

There isn't anything in this photograph that I see that justifies all of the cropping.

It leaves me wanting to know more about what the bird looks like (that could be a good thing, I don't know). it is a curious shot though, I like the division of colors, blue on the bottom and brown on the top, I wish the top was another color other than brown though.

Again, what the hell is that thing. I guess it's not so close to make it really interesting, and it's not that far that it leaves me wanting to know, again, what the hell this thing looks like.
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Postby xerubus on Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:56 pm

thanks dooda... exactly what i was looking for ....
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Postby Killakoala on Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:34 pm

 AAARRRGGHHHH!!!!!

I got chased by one of those things once. I thought i'd take a stroll through the rainforest at Mission Beach FNQ and out of the bushes this thing (cassowary) comes charging at me with a very angry look on it's face and stomping on the ground with it's vicious looking talons.

I did a quick 'Harold Holt' and got the flock out of there.

Your photo reminds me so much of that very same evil bird.

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Postby xerubus on Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:39 pm

Killakoala... i'm glad it stirred up some emotions for you... you shouldn't let these things bottle up, or one day you may find yourself explaining on a forum somewhere what happened to you and then releasing the mental scarring which has been caused... :lol:
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Postby Raydar on Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:28 pm

I like it mate :wink:

It lets you look into the inner workings of this intriguing bird :?

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Postby xerubus on Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:29 pm

thanks ray....
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Postby Matt. K on Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:52 pm

Awfully neat and awfully in the middle. Maybe you are a tad too close? The image is visually confusing and I find the 2 pink, fleshy areas distracting because they seem to indicate that there is a human intertwined with the bird.Tonally well balanced with the eye being the only area of real interest. It's a very curious image in that it seems to be beautifully balanced but there is very little to hang it all together. I hope I'm making sense? Almost works as an abstract or design piece. Guess I'm saying it has some unusual aspects that make it interesting but it fails as an illustration of the bird. A contemporary work in the new style.
I'm having a problem pinning down the logistics of your composition...which indicates the image is more complex then first meets the eye...the eye...that's it! The eye! The image has held my eye. Eye to eye. I think I'll leave before I dig myself in even deeper.
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