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Critique By:
Ahmed Fahmy (K:1091)
6/25/2008 3:50:27 AM
He's dame strong really nice work
Regards
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Critique By:
Yamil Saenz (K:12454)
6/25/2008 1:34:45 AM
Great shot Lee,
Keep the good work.
Yamil
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Critique By:
andrew newton (K:918)
6/24/2008 9:56:43 PM
lovely shot of a majestic bird
Andy :)
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Critique By:
Robin Wickenkamp (K:16478)
10/16/2006 3:10:37 AM
Hi Lee...unfortunately there is no way to edit a comment once you hit the "add comment" button. You can always post a second "correction" comment! No worries though...everyone understands!
Hope this helps...
Take care...Robin
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
10/16/2006 2:32:33 AM
PLEASE PLEASE !!! Somebody tell me how to edit a comment. I corrected a mispelled word and it double posted.
I asked the same question of the "contact us" folks a week or so ago but have had no response at all!
Nice!
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
10/16/2006 2:29:37 AM
Dave, I think you hit the nail on the head!
I've attached the original for you to see and YES it's a HUGE crop because the butterfly wouldn't let me get close. At 1/100 and f5.0 with a 105mm hand held I was lucky to see it at all but it was simply too beautiful of a butterfly to pass up.
Thanks very much!
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
10/16/2006 2:28:06 AM
Dave, I think you hit the nail on the head!
I've attached the original for you to see and YES it's a HUGE crop because the butterfly wouldn't let me get close. At 1/100 and f5.0 with a 105mm hand held I was lucky to see it at all but it was sumply too beautiful of a butterfly to pass up.
Thanks very much!
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:138153)
10/10/2006 10:20:21 PM
A little soft, yes, but you've got the detail and good colours and composition, Lee! I'm wondering if it was a fairly big crop, and that's where the softness comes from.
Dave.
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Critique By:
jim ell (K:488)
10/10/2006 2:56:19 PM
Your image is really soft. Focus is critical in macro photography and not every frame you take will end up in focus. National Geographic shoots thousands of frames and use a handful of them in a story. Be patient. Learn how to use the equipment you have and most of all keep shooting.
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:138153)
10/2/2006 5:08:57 AM
Wow, that's some feeder you've got there, Lee! Good catch of them all!
Dave.
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/30/2006 1:50:03 PM
Thanks for your reply Rebecca. You brought up an interesting idea for me. I've attached the original view for you to see. When I do wildlife shots I try to focus on the eye of whatever I'm shooting. In this case the heron's eye. I can see the iris (it was a long didtance even for a 400mm lens) but it's obviously NOT sharp. One thing I keep forgetting about the d70 is that if you change iso or others settings (I forget which ones while I'm writing this to you) the auto focus system reverts (by default) to "closest subject". I generally prefer to use "dymanic" or center spot since most of my photos include branches or other stuff infront of the birds I shoot. Well the grasses are definitely closer than the bird and that's what probably made it so soft. I need to tie a big string around me and the camera to remind me to check the focus setting. Please continue to critique.
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Critique By:
(K:12494)
9/28/2006 9:13:38 PM
Know book on getting the wings wet, some one told me about if you caught a butterfly and wet its wings it can't fly. I am not fast enough to caught one, but befor my husband had heart operation , he caught me a butterfly and I wet its wings and you can just put them where ever you want, I took a lot of pictures and waited with the butterfly, till it flyed away.
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Critique By:
rebecca claassen (K:16443)
9/28/2006 4:22:07 PM
Hi Lee, I am a learner myself so bare with me...but I will ask a few Q's and tell you what I know. Is this how you framed the shot in the camera or was it cropped? I ask because it seems that there isn't a real focal point ( nothing seems to be quite in focus). If you framed it like this when you took it your problem may be that the auto focus, if that was the setting was probably focused on the water in the background, making the subjects not as sharp as they should be. Was this the case?....R:)
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/28/2006 3:17:56 PM
Hi Barbara. This is one of those situations where the written word unsuccessfully competes with the spoken word. If we were on the phone talking about the subject written above, there wouldn't be any thought given to hurting any animals.
I must say that I'm amazed at the thought of wetting a butterfly. I never ever thought of doing that (as you can guess I'm pretty naive about photograhers "tricks of the trade") . I've always sprinkled salt on a birds tail to keep it in place, but I've never thought of wetting the butterfly. Is there a book or list of such techniques?
Thanks again for your constructive comments. They really mean a lot to me.
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Critique By:
(K:12494)
9/28/2006 4:04:27 AM
This is a spectacular capture of the most beautiful butterfly, I haven't ever seen a butterfly like this one, excellent job. my friend.
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Critique By:
(K:12494)
9/28/2006 3:58:40 AM
You are wellcome Lee, I love it when I run on to butterfly, and yes I am out after them, I like to take a lot of pictures. I wasn't taking about you, I was telling you what I done and I never hurt them, but I did wet there wings so they couldn't fly off till I was through with them, and even then I stayed till there wings was dry and watched them fly off.
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/25/2006 8:00:15 PM
Thanks for the comment Barbara but I'm confused regarding your
"but I don't go that much any ways to hurt butterflys".
I'm not quite sure how to take that but I can assure you that no butterflys were hurt or injured during my photo session with them.
These are simply beautiful creatures and I feel lucky to have one stand still long enough to be able to photograph it.
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/25/2006 2:34:26 PM
Thanks Dave. I've since learned that this insect is a "Common Wood Nymph Butterfly - Cercyonis pegala". I've also seen photos of it on the web where the light spot on the wing is yellow. My photo shows it a beige color and that's what I saw so the photo is correct. I'm wondering if they, like many birds, have a time in their lives where "breeding plumage" is apparent. The American goldfinch, as an example, is bright yellow from May through July and turns a drab variation the rest of the year. They do not migrate in my area but most people don't realize that and mistake the goldfinch for a sparrow species not realizing the birds are the same and simply a color change has occurred.
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:138153)
9/25/2006 3:17:57 AM
It may be a Chryxus Arctic, Lee, but I'm not expert! In any case you got a very nice clear shot of it!
Dave.
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Critique By:
John Markiel (K:309)
9/21/2006 2:04:02 AM
Wow, the close crop is a major improvement. I would blow it up and put it on the wall except for the bright spot at the base of the wing. This might be worth playing around in photoshop to dull that out and make him more uniform against the bright flower.
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Critique By:
Angela DeLong (K:3050)
9/19/2006 3:30:05 AM
Awesome colors. Looks like a fairy tail. Turn the page and see some fairies and mushroom houses. Beautiful.
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:138153)
9/18/2006 4:09:06 PM
Nice composition here, Lee!
Dave.
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:138153)
9/18/2006 4:04:49 PM
Good catch of these two, Lee!
Dave.
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Critique By:
Joe Johnson (K:8529)
9/18/2006 9:34:12 AM
Nice frame on that rework, too. The hotspot might suggest using some diffusion. I think butterflies make for great subjects/objects. And from what I've seen of D70 photos on this site, it produces very sharp, colorful and pleasing photos. But still, for all the slides one would have to discard, a crisp slide of the same shot is probably going to seem superior to even a D70 photo. I would guess a number of people now using digital were very familiar with slides films, in the past. But the expense. There was no alternative, then. What I'd hate to see is the elimination of slide film for a smaller niche market. I'd hate to see it go away. It's also very 'archival'. CD/DVD storage, I don't know.
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Critique By:
(K:12494)
9/18/2006 4:31:15 AM
This is a beautiful butterfly, I haven't seen one of these around hear, but I don't go that much any ways to hurt butterflys, but I did look for them last year. excellent job.
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Critique By:
Gust@vo Sch3v3rin (K:153612)
9/18/2006 3:07:58 AM
Bonito macro.
Bien hecho!
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Critique By:
Roberto Baez Duarte (K:4297)
9/18/2006 3:01:09 AM
beautiful colors.
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Critique By:
Leo Régnier Я£ (K:66135)
9/18/2006 2:24:54 AM
Nice photo my friend!!!! 
Leo
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/18/2006 12:50:36 AM
WOW! Between you and Dave Stacey I'm feeling really good. John, you were correct, it was hand held but the lens is a fixed 105mm. Your remark about camera shake causes me some concern. At 1/500th & f8 I didn't think it would have been apparent. This is what aging does, I guess, and I'll have to increase my Valium dosage before I shoot again. I certainly would have perferred a tripod but the critter was in the middle of the bush and at the very top. There was barely enough room left for me let alone a tripod too. Besides I was apparently annoying a huge bee of some kind and he wasn't looking friendly. Thanks for taking your time to make a constructive comment.
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Critique By:
Lee Duer (K:210)
9/17/2006 6:21:25 PM
Thanks for your comment Joe. I've attached a cropped image. Although I do have the Washington DC Zoo only 30 miles from me I still prefer to photograph only non-captive subjects.
I realize some of my photos would probably be much better if I were able to get closer to them in a zoo setting (like the exellent photo you took of the gorilla) but my back yard provides ample challlenges for me and I don't have to fight off crowds. My butterfly bush, that's blooming now, attracts an amazing amount of subjects to photograph.
I'm also quite happy with my decision to retire the 35mm N90 Nikon for the D70 and save an enormous amount of money by not having to trash hundreds of bad photos anymore.
Thanks again for the comment Joe.
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