Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
I checked out a local wildlife preserve and found the flooding well under way. No geese yet, but it's receiving a covering of migrating ducks. Liked the lighting and the setting in general, so am posting. Comments invited, of course. Jack

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Jack, I like wild ducks (in many different ways). However, I've always struggled getting a good photo of them: I couldn't find a composition that works for me. I like what you've got. If this photo were mine, I probably would try to play with sharpening with masking (on unsharp filter), to

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
, 2014 10:37:09 AM Subject: Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks Jack, I like wild ducks (in many different ways). However, I've always struggled getting a good photo of them: I couldn't find a composition that works for me. I like what you've got. If this photo were mine, I probably would try to play

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Jack, yep, those are regular soap bubbles. It was a family walk in the park during my short trip to Moscow this past summer, and we were blowing bubbles with the kids. The condition (probably because of the relatively high humidity and moderate temperature) was such that some of those bubbles

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
I have my people ready to prepare a billing just as soon as I decide how many zeros should follow the numbers. Jack - Original Message - From: Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org To: PDML PDML@pdml.net Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 11:46:37 AM Subject: Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks Jack, yep

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Bruce Walker
I really like this shot, Jack. The only thing that I would change were it mine is to crop about half of the distance from the bottom to the spit (preserving the reflected duck heads). Were you tempted to caption this: Cluster Duck? ducks On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jack Davis

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Christine Aguila
I like the subject, Jack, but I think the composition is a bit cluttered. Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net wrote: I checked out a local wildlife preserve and found the flooding well under way. No geese yet, but it's

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Darren Addy
I think that image is just ducky! On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: I like the subject, Jack, but I think the composition is a bit cluttered. Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net wrote:

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks for comments including your crop suggestion. Perhaps oddly, I like the intervening tules. Jack - Original Message - From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 4:34:35 PM Subject: Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks I really like this shot

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
Yeah, I see why that would trouble some. Thanks for commenting, Christine. Jack - Original Message - From: Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 7:25:33 PM Subject: Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks I like the subject, Jack, but I think

Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks

2014-10-06 Thread Jack Davis
- Original Message - From: Davis, Jack jdavi...@comcast.net To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 8:12:20 PM Subject: Re: Peso: Dawn Ducks Glad you do, Darren. Thanks! Jack - Original Message - From: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent