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November Image
Title -
Time To Feed The Pigeons!
How I did it -
This was taken in Vienna,
Austria in front of the St. Stephen's Church. Taken with the
D80 1/60 sec ISO 200. Didn't do anything to this other than
crop out the tourists. Was a cute moment.
COMMENTS:
| Mark Aksoy |
An interesting composition. The columns of the
church are well-suited to the vertical format and the pigeons/pigeon
feeder are balanced by the clock and rosette window at top. The
church wall also has eye-catching architectural elements. I
think the rosette is too close to the upper left corner - putting
back a little more space around it would strengthen the image. |
| Cliff Banks |
You certainly like your visits to Europe. This is a
nicely composed scene of Vienna, and you have done well to alleviate
the tourists. I think the image might be made better by correcting
the verticals, and have you tried using the “luminance” filter
in Image Adjust>Match Color for those occasions when the lighting
is a little flat. |
| Bob Altman |
The image seems out of focus. The person in the foreground is lost
in comparison to the building. It was a good effort to give it a
point of reference but it didn't work. I do like the angle used.
More saturation may have helped bring out some of the building
thereby alleviating some of the bland ness of the shot.
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| Bob Barley |
Interesting image, and much like Mark's church image
recently. Good contrast between the large building and the little
person feeding the birds. As you mentioned, removing the tourists
dictated the composition. The viewer's eye goes directly to the red
cap which is the interest and action in the scene. No suggestions. |
| Rene Ross |
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| Margaret Boike |
I love the red hat, especially against all the very
nice neutral colors of the rest of the image! I think it really
draws the viewer in. The building leans in to the right, and I find
that unsettling. I think the image would look better if the
perspective were fixed, which will probably cause the largest window
to be cut off a bit. But, I think the image would look better if
some of the top were cropped off, including both windows. There's
enough going on in the bottom half to make for a very nice image,
seems to me. |
| Rich Krebs |
Nice image. Not sure, but the column looks off
vertical some and the bricks seem soft. Would it have worked if you
had just taken the shot above the first cross bar? |
| Member Bio |
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Rene Ross - Biography
ikudbne1@aol.com
Though technically I am
new, I feel like I have been a member of PSA my entire life...
for as far back as I can remember, my father (Walter Ross a +40
year member) took me along with him to all his camera club
outings and meetings; I liked looking at the pictures! When I
was old enough to hold a camera and reach the "on" button on the
enlarger, I started entering club competitions; even beat pop out
a time or two ;) I have been to a few of the yearly PSA
conventions in various parts of the country, going on various
photo excursions and taking a few of the composition/style
classes.
About 10 years ago, I moved from Chicago to
So.Cal. Unfortunately, with that move I lost access to
pop's Nikons and darkroom! And as it tends to do, life
invariably intercedes and my development as a professional
Registered Nurse in a Neonatal Intensive Care took over much of
my extra time. Photography got pushed into the background.
When digital started to become commonplace, I
was able to get back into the 'darkroom' and began taking
pictures for reasons other than mere vacation documentation. I
started looking at people, objects and landscapes again as I did
as a child, with wonder and awe and the need to capture those
perfect moments on 'film'. While computers are a favorite
pastime of mine, I know there is a great deal more I can learn,
so I decided it was time to jump back into the PSA realm... this
time with my own camera in hand.
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