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Very nice Dorian..HA, BG, FFD and sharp. Question: why did you focus on the head shot and not include all of the bird? Distracting foreground? I would have liked to see all of the bird.
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Originally Posted by
Paul Burdett
Very nice Dorian..HA, BG, FFD and sharp. Question: why did you focus on the head shot and not include all of the bird? Distracting foreground? I would have liked to see all of the bird.
As one who does stuff like this often I will say that you can see a lot more feather and other detail when creating tight images than you can when you include the whole bird (with room). I am betting that Dorian has a zillion or more images of MAGO that show the whole bird. In general, you start wide and get closer slowly until you get a head shot! What fun and what a challenge.
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Lovely as usual. 20% or 80% of the full frame. I suspect the latter.
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Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
As one who does stuff like this often I will say that you can see a lot more feather and other detail when creating tight images than you can when you include the whole bird (with room). I am betting that Dorian has a zillion or more images of MAGO that show the whole bird. In general, you start wide and get closer slowly until you get a head shot! What fun and what a challenge.
with love, artie
Yeah headshots are all about the stalk, particularly with flighty/spooky subjects like shorebirds. I try to leave people with the feeling of, "How the heck did he get so close?!?!?!?" and show as much detail as possible (as Arthur said)
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Very nice Dorian. You guys are killing me with your Godwit shots. So hard to even see a Marbled Godwit around here, let alone get right in front of one. Nice details but I could see this being even better if shot with the 5d4 or less of a crop. That is when those extra pixels really come in handy.
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Is this 20% of the frame or 80% of the frame?
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Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
Is this 20% of the frame or 80% of the frame?
with love, artie
Kept 20, tossed 80. So yeah extra pixels of 5D4 would have helped but aren't a deal breaker by any stretch. This isn't getting printed any time soon........
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Thanks. It looks good for such a huge crop ...
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Thanks for the info Artie and Dorian.
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Very nice. The crop is well executed and the light looks nice. Excellent background. The only place i can think were these birds will let very close approch is Fort De Soto. I suspect that is where Arthur's frame is from.