Thanks for the feedback. The bee was off-center before I rotated and cropped the image.For reference here is the original of what I posted earlier today (before rotation + crop + slight desaturation):
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Keep shooting and let us see what you have.I like the crop much better. Sometimes we do what we can to salvage a shot. Still a lot of potential - in you as a photographer
Dale
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Terrific sequence, but your white balance got away from you (unless snow and rams are blue where you are
Your absolutely correct. Every so often I am reminded that I am still on the upwards end of the learning curve!! In my haste to get some pictures, I grabbed my camera, left my car running on the side of the road and ran after the sheep and started taking picutres, never looking at my settings. I had not changed my white balance from my prior shooting session.
I am in southwestern Montana. Bighorn sheep raom the Rocky Mountains here in the wild and they are not often seen easily. This herd came down from the high mountains due in part to the minus 20 temps last week. I may try to break away tomorrow and see if I can correctly take somemore pnotos.
I know we should only be posting one picture per day, but I couldn't pass up sharing this sequence of a bighorn ram gracefully and powerfully clearing a fence:
Awesome... amazing how the snow/ice on the sign is so polarized to the right... it would seem the wind conditions are pretty consistent up there! Where is this?The generally accepted term is "light painting", and we have a few practitioners right here on the MR photo forum. A Google search will show you just how creative some folks get with this technique. My own take has been on a larger scale, generally four strobes and a flashlight or two, all gelled and aimed at large-ish structures. We usually have a couple of the strobes on stands, triggered remotely and fired repeatedly, and then a couple of strobes plus a flashlight or two in the hands of two people running around the scene "painting" as quickly as the strobes can recycle. See my "Glowing" gallery for some of the resulting shots.
It's great fun to play around with lights and long exposures. My general advice to anyone getting into it would be to remember that light painting photos should aim for the same kind of balance and harmony you would see in any natural light shot: try to avoid crushed blacks and blown highlights, strive to achieve a full range of tones, and (of course) keep in mind everything you know about what makes a compelling pictorial image.
Anyway, if you've been at it for a while, definitely keep 'em coming in the PotD thread. You'll find a very receptive audience here.
. Live and learn. At least I found out how good a pen light can be.
