[Leica] IMG: Great Blue Heron

[Mark Rabiner]

Its great you can take those elements out but to me they do not distract
from the subject as in bird. I had them side by side my eye was going left
to right and back. The birds head had more contrast on the later one which
worked I think for it.


On 12/27/14 11:35 AM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Doug Herr OFFERED:
> 
> Thanks to the many comments on- and off-list.  I've taken the cattail reeds
> out and I toned down the bright spot in the water.  I tried a version where
> I took the bright spot out along with the cattails and the water looked like
> it had been sanitized, so I left a hint of the spot in.
> 
> The original:
> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/ardea/gbhero05a.jpg
> 
> the final:
> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/ardea/gbhero05c.jpg
> 
> All comments welcome.
> ===============================================
> Hi Doug,
> Now it's an absolutely clean-eyed beauty without the weed distraction.
> 
> Complete 100% attention is to the bird! AS IT SHOULD BE!
> 
> Look at it this way? You are one of the finest wild=life photographers on a
> day in day out, year after year basis. Consistently so with an incredible
> record of skill and images!
> 
> Sure there are "Happy-Snappers" who also capture the one or two here and
> there and that's fine and skill also. But yours always have that edge of
> consistent perfection that we see and have seen year after year.
> 
> If there's a twig, weed or leaf that takes a viewers eyes away for a
> fleeting moment? ........ IT GOES!! GONE! NADA! Better so in your case as
> you are a skilled "re-toucher" so why not remove the visually offending
> leaf, whatever?
> 
> After all we just couldn't have an image by the " Birdman of Sacramento "
> that wasn't perfect!! :-) Good on you lad as you are the best of the best!
> 
> Dr. ted :-)
> 
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