Critique My Final Draft.

[wayne_eddy]

Here you go ... don't be leanient.

I need your critique.



http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Edamask/Wayne/Photo/forum/canon/IMG_0214_edit_nospots_72dpi.jpg (http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Edamask/Wayne/Photo/forum/canon/)

Following some great response from members concerned about the brightness of the image, I have reprocessed from scratch and posted the image below.

Your opinions are valued.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~damask/Wayne/Photo/forum/canon/IMG_0214_II_72dpi.jpg

[Robert_Lay]

As it is rendered here, I would have to say that it is overly bright. There is virtually no detail left in the major highlights.

Otherwise, this is a first class shot - good capture of motion and good lighting and excellent composition.

[wayne_eddy]

As it is rendered here, I would have to say that it is overly bright. There is virtually no detail left in the major highlights.

Otherwise, this is a first class shot - good capture of motion and good lighting and excellent composition.

Thanks Robert,

The image was PP'd on a calibrated reasonable quality LCD screen and right now I am looking at it on my not very good lappy. It does look overly bright and with poor contrast on the laptop.

May I ask what you are viewing it on?

[tonydee]

It looks over-bright on my Eizo S2410W... not burnt out, but just compressing the highlight detail.

The eye is also unnaturally sharp... the total-white pixel vs total-black looks plain wrong. Maybe it's partly the downsizing algorithm you used, but if I pixel peep (don't tell anyone) I see edging from sharpening in many places....

Shutter speed's nicely judged - enough blur at the tips of the features to show movement, with the rest nicely sharp (when not too sharp).

The transition in the background overlaps in a quite dynamic way, with one wing lifting above it and the other tracing the edge... kind of neat. The colour of the sky just isn't very nice though... maybe you like it, or write it off to nature and the price of some notion of photographic integrity, otherwise you could give it a tweak? ;-)

I'm not sure if it's a shame exactly, but details of the catch are elusive.

Cheers,
Tony

[wayne_eddy]

It looks over-bright on my Eizo S2410W... not burnt out, but just compressing the highlight detail.

The eye is also unnaturally sharp... the total-white pixel vs total-black looks plain wrong. Maybe it's partly the downsizing algorithm you used, but if I pixel peep (don't tell anyone) I see edging from sharpening in many places....

Shutter speed's nicely judged - enough blur at the tips of the features to show movement, with the rest nicely sharp (when not too sharp).

The transition in the background overlaps in a quite dynamic way, with one wing lifting above it and the other tracing the edge... kind of neat. The colour of the sky just isn't very nice though... maybe you like it, or write it off to nature and the price of some notion of photographic integrity, otherwise you could give it a tweak? ;-)

I'm not sure if it's a shame exactly, but details of the catch are elusive.

Cheers,
Tony

OK thanks for the heads up on the image.

I'll repost it with a better downsize tomorrow. The 450meg TIFF I was working on looks good and it must be the algorithm employed than changed everything.

Certainly there was a lot of side lighting in this one.

[joedlh]

Great shot. Whites are little blown out. Perhaps a tad over-sharpened. I think I might try cropping this one tighter.

What species is it? At first glance, I thought it was another plain old seagull. But then I saw the talons.

[corkneyfonz]

Fabulous shot which I'm sure many people would have loved to have taken but how did you end up with a 450mb tiff.

[wayne_eddy]

Following some great response from members concerned about the brightness of the image, I have reprocessed from scratch and posted the image in the OP.

Your opinions are valued.

[vk2gwk]

The top one may be just a tad oversharpened but I think colour and contrast on that one are better then on the one below. You might move the crop a little bit "south" to include a little bit of the perch in #1. Nice shot!