June

Title -Three Little Geese

How I did it -I chose this image because it’s so darn cute, instead of some creative image for this month. When I saw these three little goslings sit and looking as there were, I got down as low as possible and photographed them with a 80/200 lens. The image was slightly cropped, added a little saturation, sharpened, corners were darken and added a colored textured matte.

COMMENTS:
 

Barbara Miller	Not only the lovely little creatures but the ANGLE it is taken from is what makes it. I would have cropped a little bit off the top and tried to darken the beak of the LH bird, it seems to blend in with the BG and cloned out the little bit of BG the emerges from the RH gosling. It's altogether a lovely natue shot Mike.
Milan Sedio	That is a nice arrangement that the nest provided to you. The birds are well placed, and make a nice composition with the back bird giving you the eye. I like the inner green border, however when I remove all elements from the monitor except for your picture. I find the white to be a bit strong. I would also like to see the background softer as the detail provided attracts the eye. An excellent picture.
T W Woodruff
John Yurchak	This separation of the three geese from the B/G is very well done. The color and the cropping are very well done as shown. The good out focus B/G helps this one as well. The frame 7 the white border helps to separate photo from the rest of the picture.
Nick Muskovac	Very nice nature shot. In my opinion, the white border you added is a little too wide. The bright spot in the upper left could have been burned in to prevent the eye from going there.
Minnie Travis	They are darling. Great that you got down to their level so that the camera would look right into their eyes. The only suggestion that I can make is to darken the BG so that the geese stand out even more.

Member Bio

Mike Lillis - Biography My interest in photography began when I was a pre-teen, taking photos of the family pet with a Kodak Brownie camera and processing the film under the basement stairs in a homemade darkroom. As a teenager, I progressed to an Argus C3 35 mm. camera. Most of my shots were of friends, and close-up work of my uncle’s gold pocket watch. In my early twenties, while in the Army, I was shooting with a Pentax SLR. While stationed stateside, I entered an Army photo contest that netted my first win. As luck would have it, I was transferred to Germany and, during the next two years, I traveled around Europe taking color and black and white photos. Although I still have many of those prints, negatives and slides, they have lost their crispness. In the ensuing years, work and family matters took up most of my time, so my photography was mainly done on vacations. However, my interest in photography was rekindled when I purchased a Kodak 3 megapixel digital camera. This exciting new technology with editing software drew me back into being serious about taking quality photographs. Then Nikon introduced the D70 and interchangeable lens at a reasonable price, and I was hooked.