Challenge:Color (Classic Editing) Camera:Nikon Coolpix 5700 Location: Lake Balboa Park Date: Mar 31, 2003 Aperture: 7.4 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/500 Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2003
My first impressions of your picture are twofold - first of all it's very small and secondly your framing is excellent. The framing I like especially because it adds impact to the shot and helps guide the viewers eye. I find my eye kinda starts at the egret's eye, moves along the beak, back to the eye and then anti-clockwise around the white feathers - pretty good. The framing also gives the feeling of being close to the bird and that comes across strongly in the comments you've received. You've arranged the shot nicely along the lines of the rule of thirds and this picture really suits that very well. I think the only improvement I could suggest would be to just bring the tip of the beak back into the picture if you can.
Now on to the size - I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this was necessary for some reason. Perhaps this is a small crop of a larger picture or perhaps you used a long lens and to make it larger would show up some camera shake. But like it or not the size has negatively affected your score - again this is pretty clear from your comments.
Technically your shot is pretty good. At this size the focus looks OK but there's not much detail. The exposure is good - I'd have liked stronger daylight to really make the colour of that beak pop off the screen but that might have led to overexposure on the white feathers. All in all I think you did great with the exposure.
I'm not a big fan of punning or contrived titles but I would never let the title affect my score.
Suitability for the challenge seems OK to me. I like the contrast of the yellow and the white, the colour and the lack of colour. I think that's a nice interpretation of the challenge.
Overall this is a good challenge submission with excellent impact and interest. Well done.
Very wow! Good detail for all that white (I know how tough that is!). It seems like a very small view and the head is slightly chopped off, but that's quibbling nit. I have it as a 10! Rob the Swash
Cute 'Lil guy. beautiful black and yellow eye staring out at you with that long yellow beak of his. Nice focus, good lighting, makes a nice visual impact on you.
This image is very small, but I like how the beak enhances the signifance of the white of the egret. There are several threads on the forum that details how you can make your image larger. A modest border would also enhance the white. Very well composed.
The grey corner is unfortunate - not sure it's even possible to do away with it (til after the challenge- then I'd clone some of the right corner into the left?) Good shot.
This is the kind of picture that I love to take. You must have a pretty long lens to get one this close. The focus looks a tad soft to me, I am guessing you might have hand-held the camera when you were taking it. It would be nice if you could have made the picture a little bigger (like 640x480 resolution) so we could see more detail. The orange really stands out due to the lack of color in the rest of the photograph. You might try boosting up the saturation a little and adding a bit of contrast. I have found that upping the contrast can sometimes make a slightly un-sharp picture look sharper. As far as composition goes I would like it better if the crop wasn’t so tight. As it is right now the picture “feels” somewhat cramped. I especially find the way the beak is touching the edge of the picture disturbing. I think you have a great start here and with a few minor modifications you could really have a high-quality picture here. I am giving this one a 5.
Well done. I like the softness of the bird and the hard focus of the colorful beak.Crop is alittle tight to me IMHO but the overall photo is wonderful.
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