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Red Grouse 'enviro'

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Posted by David Kjaer on October 14, 2006 at 11:23 AM
Red Grouse 'enviro'
One from one of my spring trips to Scotland.

Taken out of the car window using a Canon 20D + 70-200 f2.8 iso 200 f14 at 1/100
Posted by Major Gilbert on October 14, 2006 at 1:40 PM
Worth going for then David.
This image says it all. For me it all works very well indeed. :toast: :toast:

Major
Posted by Terry on October 14, 2006 at 1:51 PM
Works for me David :smile:

Terry
Posted by John Gardner on October 14, 2006 at 2:06 PM
Excellent shot and different to the usual grouse images.

Regards
John
Posted by Nick on October 14, 2006 at 3:06 PM
Hmmm, not sure about this one David - I think you need to back off on the sharpening a bit as the foreground elements jump out a bit too much from the BG.
Posted by Rob Ashton on October 14, 2006 at 3:13 PM
Nice one David. Looks ok on my notebook but maybe a bit sharpish on other monitors?

Rob :toast:
Posted by John Swift on October 14, 2006 at 3:16 PM
Nice environmental, I really like the layers here but the skyline bothers me I'm afraid.

Regards

John S
Posted by John MacTavish on October 14, 2006 at 4:11 PM
I like it, but think if you cropped it to get rid of the snow and sky in the bg you'd have a stronger subject.
When I saw the title for this one I thought you might have been shooting wide with an X-Pan :wink:

John :toast:
Posted by Tom_W on October 14, 2006 at 4:38 PM
David, I would back of the selective sharpening on this one.
Posted by John Chapman on October 15, 2006 at 11:50 AM
Hi David
great bird in the landscape picture taken in one of my favourite places.
John
Aberdeen :toast:
Posted by Sean Bolton on October 15, 2006 at 2:51 PM
Hi David

An excellent image, it works perfectly for me and the grouse is very well set against the expanse of it's habitat. :toast:

Possibly slightly oversharpened, but on my CRT monitor it doesn't look excessive and I only thought about it after seeing the previous comments.

cheers

Sean
Posted by PhilH on October 16, 2006 at 4:01 AM
Hi David....

Like it a lot... perhaps the fg is slightly oversharpened... (are you working with an LCD or CRT?), I really like the environment here, but can perhaps see where John is coming from but feel that any crop from the top would be detrimental to that, I am particularly fond of the warm tones in the fg fading into the cool tones in the bg.

:toast:
Posted by Graham Bailey on October 16, 2006 at 10:21 AM
A little over sharpened but other than that I like it :toast:

Graham
Posted by Justin on October 17, 2006 at 5:19 PM
Superb.
I like this one a lot. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Danny Green on October 18, 2006 at 7:20 AM
Hello David

Wow what a Cracker I nearly missed this like it better than another image that did well in a comp a few years back.

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Danny