I do prefer this pic to the other jay shots aesthetically, but I do have to agree that the softness goes beyond motion blur. You might be able to tweak it a bit with some more unsharp mask, but it will probably never look critically sharp. On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
> I agree with doug's comments. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Brewer" <d...@alphoto.com> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:52 PM > Subject: Re: Question for Mark, Doug, William and anyone else that has > judgeda photo contest > > >> On 9/19/11 10:08 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >>> http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2011-markhamfair/album/index.html >>> >>> In my markham fair post, i mentioned that one of the jays shots, 6037, >>> the landing one, is a bit soft, Paul calls in motion blur.:-) This is >>> the one i like for the wild bird class, but am bothered by this bit of >>> softness, which does not really show up at web sizes so i just noticed >>> it when i printed it out. >>> >>> Question to the judges on the list, would this be a deal breaker or >>> not. The concept of the photo is jays in flight, but would the >>> softness or motion blur be enough to say, "nope, try again next year >>> Brooksie". My other choices are #'s 6034 and 6057 in the above link. >>> >>> Thoughts??? >>> >>> Dave >>> >> >> yeah, the issue is that when we look at a photo we look for the thing in >> focus and think that is the subject. In the shot in question, by this logic, >> the peanuts on the bench appear to be the subject. If the Jay was the only >> thing in the photo, I could maybe grant a little wiggle room on the focus, >> but then the problem might be someone else delivering a shot where the bird >> was in perfect focus, and I'd go with that one. Not knowing the relative >> quality of the typical Markham Fair submissions, though, I would be hard for >> me to make that call. >> >> The short answer would then be, as always, "it depends." >> >> If it were my shot, I'd probably wait for next year, but I'm way too >> critical of my own work. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
