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> Helen wrote:
> | On Apr 30, 9:20 pm, Annika1980 <annika1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> After months and months of a long dry spell, I guess I don't have to
> |> tell you how good it feels to get your first hummer of the year!
> |>
> |> http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/96400717/original
> |
> | Congrats!! What a joy it must have been!
> | She looks like an angel the way you captured that moment in time. I
> | can really feel a sense of movement looking at those wings. I know
> | how hard it is to shoot these fast moving birds, so I commend you for
> | an excellent job! Lovely detail in the feathers.
> | Helen
>
> What are you on about? These birds hover.
Yes, but only for a second or two.
>
> ~From the lost dynamic range of that less than technically excellent
> happy snap, it looks like he set the camera up on a tripod with a remote
> shutter release, highlight preservation on and attracted the poor bird
> with a honey pot then fired enough flash power at it to damage the poor
> things eyes for the rest of it's life. And what about the bird's
> colours? Where are they?
Damn, you can see all that in Bret's pic but you can't see why this one
sucks ???
http://www.douglasjames.com.au/previews/romance.htm
>
> Almost as bad as using freeze spray on insects or flash on a newborn
> baby. Learn some ecologically safe techniques will you? Get a decent
> camera so you don't need the light up the neighborhood to get the shot.
What's wrong with flash ? Don't you use it in your wedding shots ?
>
> Without over use of flash
How do you "overuse" flash ?
and plasticizing the image in Photoshop
You mean like this one ?
http://www.douglasjames.com.au/previews/romance.htm
, it
> could have been a nice picture. Not even a happy snap for the
> collection. Steal some of mine if you *must* have good photos. You
> already have most of them, or so you claim.
If he wanted good photos yours would be the last one to take !
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> from Douglas,
> If my PGP key is missing, the
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