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| Ernie Zimmerman | I liked the action shot of the Seagull. Centering of the bird works, as it closely approaches you. The body and head of the bird are sharp. To get the wings sharp, you need a shutter speed of 1000 - 1500. If you increase the ISO to 400 or more, it might help. |
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| Mohanan Nair | Good action shot. The water drops on the top side look un-natural. It may be due to the angle of the shot. What about removing them? |
| Sally Grugan | Talk about stopped motion.! This really has it. I love his beady eyes and colored beak and foot. Nice water, color and droplets. Great shot for a postcard. |
| Kathleen L. Sims | Keep trying. I too have difficulty capturing birds in flight. When captured correctly, they make magnificent images. |
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Bogdan Bricelj -
Biography
I was born in the year 1958 in Jesenice, Slovenia. After finishing primary school, I attended Grammar school in Jesenice. I graduated at Faculty of electrical engineering in Ljubljana. I was working for 9 years in steel factory Železarna Jesenice as service engineer. Since the year 1990 I’m manager and co-owner of computer company 3BM d.o.o. Jesenice. I took my first photograph when I was five years old. When my parents were away from home, I used my mother’s camera to take a photograph of my younger brother which stood in the middle of the kitchen holding a knife in his hands. After developing of film, my mother wondered when she had taken that picture. I learnt the art of photography and developing of black and white photos in the photo school in the primary school. After that I pass over to diapositives. In 1973 my first diapositive was accepted on State exhibition in Nova Gorica. More than thirty years I had on all my journeys an ordinary Praktica without any electronics. Gradually I bought a flash, macro rings, one broad-angled objective and two tele objectives. Most of all I took pictures on trips and mountain tours. Primary I was attracted by small flowers and wild animals. The growing up of my daughter was also one of my favourites themes. When I was young I was experimenting a lot with taking snaps of »moon surface« until my lunar module exploded. When my brother and I was setting our company, this took almost all of my time. I didn’t manage to put the diapositives into frames, to look and sort them. So the photography was staying aside. With introduction of digital cameras I started to occupy myself with photography more professional. I bought my first digital camera in the year 2004. I have realised that compact digital cameras have many advantages with respect to classic ones. I have found many new options which were not possible by using classic cameras: sharp photos with perfect depth sharpness, high magnification without objective changing, good macro photography, immediate photographs viewing, faster reviewing and sorting of snaps. The previous knowledge of photography helps me lot when testing new cameras and advising, recommending and instructing of our customers how to work with digital cameras. My presentations of digital cameras on Craft-fair in Jesenice and in Photographic clubs were accepted by interest. In the year 2005 I affiliated myself to photographic club Fotografsko drustvo Jesenice. At the end of year 2008 I acquired the photo title Kandidate for Master of Photography from Photographic Society of Slovenia. In the year 2010 I’ve got the title PPSA and now I have all the conditions for EPSA. This year I’ve got also the title EFIAP. I had 12 exhibitions of my own. For two years and a half I’m president of fotographic club Fotografsko drustvo Jesenice. My photos Since I have started to take pictures in digital technique, I do not use any other technique. All of my photos are taken with compact digital cameras, mostly with my HP-945 and Panasonic FZ-50. I know cameras quite good and for that reason I always try to get out of cameras as much as possible. The knowledge about camera efficiency enables me to get almost no unsuccessful shots. I expand the efficiency of my camera by adding tele-converter, macro lenses and filters. Although digital photography allows a lot of possibilities of photo modifying, my photos are as much as possible pure representation of moments captured in nature. Of course, some of the photos are a little bit beautified by contrast. I make some cuttings somewhere, specially where I could not approach near by animals. Sometimes it is good to remove disturbing branchlet or reflections of camera?s lenses from the shot. But it is very strange to me to modify background and various montages. That seems not a real photo to me. Collective viewing of photos on Club meetings are very useful. My colleagues Jani, Elica, Marija, Sandi, Vito and others help me a lot by their advices to improve and design my photos. I prefer to make photos of nature: animals, flowers and landscape. The other preferred theme is sports, especially outdoor sports. There compact cameras are as good as SLRs. My most successful sport photographs are
dog’s races and ski jumps. |
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