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More Pelican Pics

Postby antman on Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:52 pm

As a follow-up to my recent other pics, I managed to get a few more this afternoon. (Promise that these will be the last - Pelicans at least)

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I was quite please with the way they came out. They have all have had some curves adjustment and sharpening applied.
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Postby Nikon boy on Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:01 pm

Geoff great pics mate well done
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Postby marcotrov on Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:18 pm

Some lovely images here antman.
#2 and 3 for their interesting perspective.
#4 has a certain potential. It's visually attractive and could have been a beauty with a slight framing and perspective alteration to include the beaks of the the OOF pelicans on eithert side. I like the height gradation of the composition and the selective focus you have applied. It would have been interesting to see the effects of those framing changes to the visual impact.
I also like second last one for it's quirky appeal. Again all things being perfect you could have asked the left hand pelican to move in a little :lol:
Nice colour and imaging overall
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Postby ABG on Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:44 pm

Lovely stuff Antman.

#2, 3 and 4 are just great. Shame you didn't have a slightly wider angled lens for the 4th to include more of the pelicans, but I'd still be very happy with it
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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:05 pm

Excellent stuff! I'm impressed, some of the best pelican shots I've seen.
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Postby wendellt on Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:50 pm

amazing work
I have never seen such an original take on pelicans
the 2nd one is wow and the 2nd last amazing tone
did you use the flash?
they are very fashionable stylistic images
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Postby Glen on Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:43 am

Geoff, dont know where you find them but great images. Are these at Long Reef?
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Postby antman on Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:07 am

Thanks again everyone. Appreciate the feedback.

To answer a few questions -

Glen - Taken at Narrabeen - just near the ocean pool

Wendell - No flash. All afternoon light.

ABG and Marco - I was a bit lazy and 1st selected image 4 as I didn't have to do any cropping. Here is another that I had with some improvements as suggested. Unfortuantely its really quite difficult to get them all looking at the same direction at the same time. During these 2 pics they were acrtually looking at a paraglider overhead.

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Postby Sheila Smart on Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:26 pm

Love the symmetry. Well done indeed.

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