Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its great you can take those elements out but to me they do not distract from the subject as in bird. I had them side by side my eye was going left to right and back. The birds head had more contrast on the later one which worked I think for it. On 12/27/14 11:35 AM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Doug Herr OFFERED: > > Thanks to the many comments on- and off-list. I've taken the cattail reeds > out and I toned down the bright spot in the water. I tried a version where > I took the bright spot out along with the cattails and the water looked > like > it had been sanitized, so I left a hint of the spot in. > > The original: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/ardea/gbhero05a.jpg > > the final: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/ardea/gbhero05c.jpg > > All comments welcome. > =============================================== > Hi Doug, > Now it's an absolutely clean-eyed beauty without the weed distraction. > > Complete 100% attention is to the bird! AS IT SHOULD BE! > > Look at it this way? You are one of the finest wild=life photographers on a > day in day out, year after year basis. Consistently so with an incredible > record of skill and images! > > Sure there are "Happy-Snappers" who also capture the one or two here and > there and that's fine and skill also. But yours always have that edge of > consistent perfection that we see and have seen year after year. > > If there's a twig, weed or leaf that takes a viewers eyes away for a > fleeting moment? ........ IT GOES!! GONE! NADA! Better so in your case as > you are a skilled "re-toucher" so why not remove the visually offending > leaf, whatever? > > After all we just couldn't have an image by the " Birdman of Sacramento " > that wasn't perfect!! :-) Good on you lad as you are the best of the best! > > Dr. ted :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/