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Yes, well done on all of these. The lighting is great. I assume they are all tripod, and existing light.
Or else you've gone to the trouble to diffuse the flash and place it well off the camera. It's not harsh.
#1 I get distracted by what's going on in the top right corner, which takes away from what I assume is the subject. It's technically good, but I'm finding it a bit cluttered.
#2 Nice face-in-the-tree there. Provided I saw it in the viewfinder, I'd have moved just a little to the right to put all the branches at the bottom of the tree behind the post that holds up the binoculars and to centre up the main trunk with the 'chin' of the face.
#3 Again good colour, the light makes the eagle look almost phoshopped in, it's so well separated from the background.
I honnestly don't care for the first one, the subject by itself doesn't hold my interest. I think that I understand how you wanted to emphasis depth by focusing on the "fence" but there are too many elements everywhere that distract me. Also, the fact that the fence directly lead the eyes to a blown out area of artificial lighting is an issue for me.
I like your second one. I would have prefered the binoculars to be less centered and the fact that a tree is directly behing them leads to a strange effect. Kinda like the branchs were growing out of the binoculars. On the other hand the textures are great and the colors are superb.
The third one is my favorite. This one is quite striking. Great composition and great colors. The eagle stand out so much that it almost seems too good to be true.
I'd be curious to know how you have set your flash to get these results.
lol to tell you the truth there was no flash used. All of this is in a park overlooking New York City and even though the park was closed it has big overhead lights on until about 10:00. I just used what I had to work with. As you can see I dont have that much control with my point and shoot and am dying to get a d70 soon as my friend just got a canon 20d.
You can take some pride in these shots with them being available light, xsport. All three are well done.
The first does the least for me for the reasons already stated. Number 2 is nice and the tree limbs don't really bother me that much. Of course that is probably just my weird sense of imagination at work. ;)
Number 3 is simply great. A splendid job of using the available light to really highlight the sculpture and not worry about losing detail in the bg. This is one I would definitley think about for a print and frame.
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Re: More night shots
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