-- Randy Wilson (randy@uafphpl.uark.edu), August 05, 1998

Answers

Randy-in a word, spectacular. I just wish it were wider! Congratulations. BTW, how long was the exposure?

-- Jim Korczak (korczaks@ptdprolog.net), August 05, 1998.

Randy, great photo! I just spent 5 minutes with my brightness knob and still haven't decided where it looks the best! Looks like a place to visit again. Thanks

-- Jim Palmer (jpalmer@acd-pc.com), August 05, 1998.

I am not one to come out and say "great photo" on this critique, but this is a "great photo" and combines nature, photography and art.

-- Adam Liedloff (a.liedloff@qut.edu.au), August 05, 1998.

I add my voice to the "great photo" gang! Perfect exposure, composition and colours. This picture would make a nice poster. Excellent work. - L.P.

-- Louis-Philippe Masse (phisa@generation.net), August 05, 1998.

Well, what more can I say? It's simply great!! I don't know what could have been done better.

-- Philipp Leibfried (phil@provi.de), August 06, 1998.

One to be proud of. This and the dancing cranes are the two best shots I have seen on the forum. What film did you use and what did you meter for, the highlights or the shadows? Or did you just use auto? Shots like this raise the standard of the forum generally and that is not a bad thing.

-- Eric Masterson (emasters@orca.ucd.ie), August 06, 1998.

The colors, branches (seemingly coming out of nowhere!) and composition are nice. I don't like the little bird (duck? swimming in the center of it).

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 06, 1998.

Andreas,

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that your duck is a small branch (+/- 1 inch long). From the perpective and scale of the image, it would be an incredibly small duck!

Regards - L.P.

-- Louis-Philippe Masse (phisa@generation.net), August 07, 1998.

I think I would have liked it better if the dark branches were not hiding in the shade, but in the color, given some contrast to the brillient color areas.

-- brad mills (dbradmills@aol.com), August 07, 1998.

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Louis-Phillipe is correct about the image's scale, and that is indeed the tip of a limb in the middle of the picture. I'm afraid that I didn't record any of the exposure details and don't recall any (I think I shot this photo last December). I'm sorry to be of no help on that. The film was velvia, and though I don't recall specifically, I expect I metered on the highlights and opened up a stop to a stop and a half.

-- Randy Wilson (randy@uafphpl.uark.edu), August 10, 1998.