NUDE Bird..... careful nakedness

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NUDE Bird..... careful nakedness

Postby big pix on Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:23 pm

looks like I have been putting the wrong sort of bird pix's up for comment...... so here is one I shot a while back..... hope this shot is more to everyones taste...... :roll:

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Postby the foto fanatic on Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:56 pm

Nice pic.

Just spoiled by too many pussies. :wink:
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:47 pm

cricketfan wrote:Nice pic.

Just spoiled by too many pussies. :wink:


LMAO.....i am NOT touching that!!

Great pic.....nice natural looking image!!
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Postby Raskill on Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:04 pm

I resisted looking at this thread, thinking 'i'm not going to be caught out....'

Glad I have no self control now. I like the image. Don't know how much the cats add to it, but the skin tones and lighting are really spot on. Nice.

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Postby marcotrov on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:55 pm

Lovely image Bernie love the play between the cat and the model looking up. Ideally the foreground pussy(hope i'm being specific enough :shock:and normally i wouldn't wish for the removal of any pussy :lol: ) seems superfluous and in ways a little distracting from the main subject and their intentful gaze upward. Leaves the viewer intrigued :)
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Postby big pix on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:25 pm

thanks to the brave 4 who left a comment......... I have nothing to say to the other 128 lookers.........
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Postby bago100 on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:33 pm

Ha! Make that the brave 5 Bigpix!. :D

This is a lovely, natural and tasteful photo.

I wonder what the lady and the cat on the left were looking at with their almost identical blue eyes?

If you cropped the out of focus foreground cat out, you get a much stonger photo in my humble opinion.

Well done!

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Postby Bindii on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:34 pm

Yeah I'd lose the pussy... waaaaaaay too much fur if you ask me..;)

The image isn't bad... but it could be improved by perhaps healing or cloning out wrinkles at her waist as they are a little distracting.. the peacock feathers while a nice touch are also postioned a little in the wrong spot as it kinda looks like she is sprouting them from her back..

still its lovely and I am sure that the lady concerned is stoked with it...:)
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Postby Sandy Feet on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:38 pm

I like this image, I think it could lend itself to a B&W traetment

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Postby big pix on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:46 pm

thanks to more brave soles...... I shot this image over 25 years ago.... with a metz flash in a brolly...... using a h/blad and transparency

EDIT: just did a recount make that over 33 years ago........
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Postby Bindii on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:54 pm

big pix wrote:thanks to more brave soles...... I shot this image over 25 years ago.... with a metz flash in a brolly...... using a h/blad and transparency

EDIT: just did a recount make that over 33 years ago........


So I'm guessing she doesnt look like that no more then.... which would make this image all the more important to her now I would imagine...

its held up well... you won't see many of our digi images holding their quality for that many years I bet... transparencies rock...!!
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Postby Hudo on Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:04 am

We have a lovley cat that loves getting in the pics with the models but never will sit still long enough for a pic to be taken. She also hates to be picked up.. Nice shot...

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Postby ATJ on Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:11 pm

Bernie,

I was going to comment that you'd gotten a real retro feel with this one, but seeing as it was shot in the 70s, it probably had a modern feel to it at the time.

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Postby Reschsmooth on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:54 pm

I like the image - looks reminiscent of photos I have in my 1970s/80s photography books.

If we all got hung up on comments vs views, no-one would post images - I have had plenty of posts where there have been three comments and over 100 views!
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Postby Killakoala on Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:49 pm

Sure, the foreground cat is distracting but i think there's enough interest in the rest of the image to keep it out of mind. Great image and a nice candid.
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