ManuelaR
3. seagull having fun...
Posted by ManuelaR (Hainburg (Frankfurt/Main), Germany) on 9 January 2008 in Animal & Insect.
-- captured in Hainburg/Main, Germany --
For the beginning please go here: http://manuela.aminus3.com/admin/image/2008-01-07.html
Thanks for your comments!
HOT TIP FOR ALL AM3 CONTRIBUTORS (from Ian Bramham here in Aminus3):
I've been having problems for ages with my uploaded landscape orientated images looking fuzzy and not as sharp as they should be....well I finally found the answer yesterday in an answer by Jason Kravitz to a query in the forums .....if you too have been having this problem the answer is to make sure you resize your photos to a maximum horizontal dimension of 800 pixels (vertical size is not limited). Anything greater than 800pixels and AM3 will automatically resize it leading to the reduction in sharpness.
Please feel free to copy and paste this advice into your own AM3 blogs as I'm sure there are lots of our fellow AM3ers out there having this same frustrating problem...it would be great to sort the problem out for as many of us as possible.
Thanks for your valuable tips and/or constructive input!!
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Mandy from Johannesburg, South Africa
Aesome - I checke out the whole sereis and really enjoyed his antics - you captured them so well!! :) I especially liked the first one!
9 Jan 2008 6:58am
tyan from Singapore, Singapore
is that a fish in his beak?wow,this is a totally brilliant and superb capture of predator in action!
9 Jan 2008 7:12am
@tyan: Hi tyan!
No, it's not a fish. This little fellow was having such fun with just a small little piece of wood!
Flying high, dropping it in the water, diving & catching it, and start all over again...
Thanks for your visit ;)
merdax from tehran, Iran
thnx for your nice comment !
your link{this photoblog} will be added to my "about" page!
thnx
9 Jan 2008 1:31pm
Ken McCoy from Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Nice seagull series! I like this one because the pose is perfect.
9 Jan 2008 3:03pm
Dang from Marietta, United States
It's been a nice series, and the advice is correct for most sites. It's also good to note when saving a copy to "save as", and not "save for the web" to maintain exif. In addition, be sure it's converted to sRGB 8 bit (which is web standard), and not Abode RGB or16 bit since this will also cause re-processing resulting in duller colors. Last step before posting should be to sharpen. I wasn't aware the height wasn't important for Am3, since it is for other sites. But, I really hate scrolling to view an entire shot. I've always felt if I can't view it in one gulp, the impacts lost. Just personal preference I guess. Thanks!
9 Jan 2008 3:32pm
Ina from Krugersdorp, South Africa
Looks like a pose! Great shot, like the colors too!
9 Jan 2008 3:50pm
Michael Rawluk from Prince George, Canada
That gull is just showing off. Nice shot.
9 Jan 2008 4:05pm
Sandra Rocha from Alfândega da Fé, Portugal
Está um encanto, 100*************************************************************.
9 Jan 2008 4:12pm
yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece
very nice image again - excellent seagull series
9 Jan 2008 4:29pm
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
This is a beauty.
Thanks for the tip. Fortunately I was already sizing my images that way for both of my blogs so I never noticed that issue. I like to keep the longest side at 800. I too like to see the whole photo on the screen. I think something is lost too when I have to scroll down to take in the whole image.
9 Jan 2008 5:37pm
Rebecca from Leicester, United Kingdom
Ohhhhh, I can feel the fun here indeed!! :O) Once again, I really love the detail on the wings, and the seagull’s amazing posture here along with these beautiful ripples makes this an utterly gorgeous capture and composition. Truly Wow.
10 Jan 2008 12:31am
Camiller from Lisboa, Portugal
The waves of the water could be called " The seagull effect ". Very good series. :)
10 Jan 2008 12:38am
MGB from Lisboa, Portugal
A landscape (view of a lake), a bit of action, a touch of love. Almost as in the famous play of Anton Tchékhov. :))
10 Jan 2008 12:57am
@MGB: Thank you so much!
By the way this is the river Main, at the end of my street where all this action took place ;)
