{"id":6135,"date":"2011-07-01T22:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T02:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2011-07-01T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T02:47:53","slug":"my-comments-on-your-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/07\/01\/my-comments-on-your-comments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Comments on Your Comments #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This image was posted here <\/a> on June 28th; readers were asked to critique the image, to love it or rip it to shreds, and to let us know why. Please see my comments on your comments below. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

My Comments on Your Comments #2<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First off, thanks to all who visited and especially to those who commented. More folks on average liked this image than image #1 in the For Your Critique<\/a> series. Several folks stated that they would have deleted that one; nobody suggested that here. <\/p>\n

I will share my thoughts on your comments here. Many folks suggested a pano crop from the top, losing the clouds. Though a different and lovely image would surely result there is no way that I would lose the clouds. I am with Peter Noyes on that point! For me the clouds balance the whole image. Many folks stated that they loved the layers and I agree 100%. Most of all I love the first two layers, the wind-blown water and the flock of Tundra Swans. And I like field and the the mountains a lot and I love the fact that the the clouds pretty much balance those first four layers. And I like that the wind was behind me so that the birds were almost all facing the camera. <\/p>\n

I am torn by Mary’s suggestion to eliminate the dark blue bit in the lower left corner. First I loved the idea but in retrospect I am not so sure. Chuck, the partial hill on our left is so far back that it is both out of focus and partially obscured by clouds so I would not go there. I love the various shades of the blues and on my calibrated monitor the WHITEs look just fine: not too bright with good detail showing. It is important to remember that even with calibrated monitors there will be variation depending on MAC or PC, ambient light, and the monitor angle. <\/p>\n

Michael Eckstein, Therese S, Debby C, and especially David Policansky pretty much hit my nail on the head. (David, my brain is telling me that you have been on an IPT; am I correct?) Please do not feel that I am praising those who agree with me only because they are seeing things my way. I am just expressing my opinion as you did yours. And I do appreciate everyone who took the time to stop by and to comment. Jeff Dyck, I answered your d-o-f question in the comments section. Doug Bolt’s idea of making a B&W image has merit and I appreciated Jim Ducey’s comments on the peaceful mood of the image. <\/p>\n

My student Alan Lillich decried the lack of a clear subject; for me the row of swans was clearly the subject. How many folks know that I coined the term “bird-scape”? I would not wish to crop any of the water from the bottom as the bottom of the image as is has perfect thirds: 1\/3 water, 1\/3 birds, and 1\/3 field. To crop from below would upset that balance within the balance to my eye. Thanks Lesley for your winter wonderland comments; that is how I felt when I was there. Lesley’s husband Peter Kes is my web man as well as a dear friend; he is on a plane to Quito to join us as my guest after a last minute cancellation. As is my 12-year old grandson, Sam Egensteiner. Sam and I fly early on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n

I’ll drop by tomorrow for a brief visit. <\/p>\n

ps: Did I forget to mention that overall I liked the image a lot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This image was posted here on June 28th; readers were asked to critique the image, to love it or rip it to shreds, and to let us know why. Please see my comments on your comments below. <\/p>\n

My Comments on Your Comments #2 <\/p>\n

First off, thanks to all who visited and especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","category-educational","category-photography-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}