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In Reply to: Northern Cardinal from Organ Pipe Natl Monument, Arizona posted by SamM on April 24, 2003 at 15:16:03:
as if their manhood was challenged.Instead of taking it as just one person's opinion.Allbeit a professional photo judge at local camera clubs.And former picture editor for a chain of newspapers.Enough about me!Re-visiting that tiger shot, it is a very tightly cropped headshot.Including the top of ears.Model photogs often do very tight headshots on magazine covers from chin to over eyebrows, to carry off their feeling or mood of the image.That tongue and ear are in my original positive.Is that Cardinal's tail? :)
However, I think I can mention to you, you'd rather have a closer tight view of the big Red Guy , by using a 600mm lens.
If indeed the tail is already clipped, then making a tighter cropping in , say from off the right edge.Up to the wood knot.Then under the tail even more, and crop the left up to the lighter branches .Say in line with the first 0 in 2003.Finally a little off the top.
I do wish we could get a discussion group going on in here, about helping all of us toward better shooting......
Follow Ups:
i WAS kidding! notice the ;-)... I really like your Tiger shot, but that is the beauty of art... everyone has a different take as to what they find important or not for a composition. Your cropping of the image clearly (at least to me) emphasizes the thirds and therefore makes the dripping fang the center of attention. But, i would have still like to see the rest of the tongue since to me the Tigers current state (tired? hungry? grimasse?) says something is going on we cannot see with the tiger's tongue.... Since you made the choice, i'm sure you looked at the concequences and felt that this was stronger. I, as a viewer of the image, don't have the prior knowledge as to what the rest of the image looked like so cannot help but wonder what if something interesting is happening or not with it. This does not take away from it being a powerful shot.I actually do a have a shot of the full bird in frame, but like this composition better... The D30 has a Magnication Factor of 1.6, so i fact i was shooting at 400x1.6 with that damned Sigma lens (i say damned because it's the only lens i own with a VERY narrow fStop sweetspot, but a good one nonetheless and also has a close focus of 4 ft!) I just prefered this particular pose and twist of his head, over the one i took in portrait while the bird was singing... theoretically the better shot, but i just prefered this one... I'll post the other one if you guys wanna take a gander.
I do like tight shots of birds, but it depends on the personality of the bird to me. To me powerful birds (like birds of prey, parrots, macaws) really don't need any other compositional elements because of what the power of their own presence conveys. Whereas other birds like wadders and some foragers, seen to better suited to be placed in context with their surroundings to overcome their personality.
Obviously the above is in reference to tight cropping and not in general... but, here is a bird that i believe stands tight cropping. I took this with EOS 3, Kodak 100VS, Canon 70-200/2.8 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Sam
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