Snowy Egret

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obviously it's over exposed.. but I'm guessing that was by design? The out of focus areas in the forground on either side of the Egret landing are very distracting.
 
obviously it's over exposed.. but I'm guessing that was by design? The out of focus areas in the forground on either side of the Egret landing are very distracting.
I could work on the exposure. The out of focus foreground is due to a shallow depth of field; this is not so much an excuse but rather the consequence of shooting wide open with a long lens. Thanks, Bill
 
It not technically a perfect photo but I like the Egret coming in hot with a goofy look on it's face. I think we all get these type of photos sometimes when shooting with a long lens.
 
Sometimes the action and the story overrides the technical shortcomings.

Brilliant that's the best thing I have read out of all these critiques and you put it so simply. That's photography...…...it made me reflect

The masters used film and manual lenses, it made so many of them timeless photographers, there images are soft by todays standards, no eye tracking, the list goes on.......and many of their works are just timeless that we never see again.
Today we seem to be obsessed with the latest gear and specks and sharpness.
Todays technology is amazing to say the least but gee doesn't everything look the same. Even the New TVs have everyone's eyes needle sharp, in many cases it looks weird.
Its not the way it looks in the real world.
I remember the head editor of Vogue magazine screaming out one day "Isn't there some ******** body in the whole of New York that take a picture that IS NOT bleedingly Sharp and super detailed" ............. LOL

Our Club recently had a day out where members were only allowed to bring a 50mm lens and only allowed to shoot in camera Black and White, they went to parts of the city that were old and Victorian taking images inside and out. The amount of members who said it was so challenging yet was amazing and they all loved it.
I do this sometimes with a DF in full manual mode and a 50mm Zeiss manual lens, I light weight monopod, its grounding and rewarding, I choose a stormy day of heavy rain and wind, why wind, well Umbrellas reverse and people are challenged making it unique subjects, I catch the train to the Opera House in the hart of the City. A poncho and Sombrero is all I need.


Oz down under
 
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