ManuelaR
4. seagull having fun... (end)
Posted by ManuelaR (Hainburg (Frankfurt/Main), Germany) on 10 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!!
© ManuelaR - All rights reserved
tyan from Singapore, Singapore
how symbolic with its back against us to mark the end of this series..!Bye bye seagull!Hello New Series!:)
10 Jan 2008 7:39am
Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States
I love the variation in values on his wings!!!
10 Jan 2008 12:09pm
Steven from Montreal, Canada
Love the shape of the wings as well as the reflection!
10 Jan 2008 1:13pm
Ina from Krugersdorp, South Africa
Nice capture again! Is he landing or taking off?
10 Jan 2008 2:38pm
@Ina: Hello Ina!
...he is taking off again to drop that little piece of wood and starting the game anew!!
Thanks for your comments and your time ;)
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
Wow, fantastic capture...love the ripples and reflection :)
10 Jan 2008 3:29pm
Michael from Wuppertal, Germany
hmhm... you confused me... Now I dont know which one I like better...
10 Jan 2008 3:43pm
Julio Pulido from Barcelona, Spain
Buena serie, el momento de ésta es espectacular. Un saludo.
10 Jan 2008 8:16pm
Ryan from Brisbane, Australia
What an interesting little character. Sometimes the joys of life can be so simple, as children and animals often teach us. Your seagull series was amazing - such talent!
10 Jan 2008 8:28pm
Jasp from Plymouth, United Kingdom
A fun picture... not all bird shots have to show the head :-) a... and thanks for the A-3 tip.
10 Jan 2008 8:30pm
Laurie from Lincoln, United States
Cool image! It looks like it's standing on the water! Nice composition...so sharp! Well done! =-)
10 Jan 2008 9:05pm
L.Reis from Portugal
Great timming , Manuela! Exquisite tones on this flight drawing. Well done!
10 Jan 2008 9:49pm
standley from brou-sur-chantereine, France
Another wonderful one. I enjoyed your series
10 Jan 2008 9:53pm
Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom
Nice shot, and beautifully clear.
Heres is another useful tip, which will help keep your images optimised for web display on AM3. - after resizing your image to 800 X 600 or whatever, use the 'save for web' function in photoshop, and choose a suitable quality setting. This dialogue will give you a visual representation of what your image will look like before you save it, and is better than just using 'save as'.
10 Jan 2008 10:20pm
Rebecca from Leicester, United Kingdom
This is an absolutely splendiferous conclusion to this beautiful, first-class series. Once again, I so love the posture of the gull, so apt especially for this end-piece, and the utterly TERRIFIC wing detail. The ripples and reflections here are truly enrapturing too. I totally LOVE this.
11 Jan 2008 2:57am
Andrew Gould from Sydney, Australia
Nice capture of the action, Manuela.
About your note concerning upload sizes, there's another point to this that I have only recently figured out. If you copy and paste any of your (or anybody else's) uploads onto your desktop and then check the properties, you'll see that the file size will be just a little over 100kbs. If you upload a file that is larger, aminus3 will automatically reduce the size, and it seems to me from my tests, that the quality gets degraded. I would therefore advise everyone to resize to a maximum of 100kbs before uploading.
I will now go and put this on the unofficial aminus3 forum at:
http://aminus3members.freeforums.org
11 Jan 2008 3:05am
Ken McCoy from Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States
I really like the angle of the wings!
11 Jan 2008 3:20am
Andrew Gould from Sydney, Australia
Ok... It's now on as the latest reply to in the series of exchanges that you must have already seen:
http://aminus3members.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=183#183
11 Jan 2008 3:39am
Dang from Marietta, United States
Ah... That explains it! I wasn't aware Am3 was compressing our shots so much, no wonder. Guess I'll start posting smaller size photos in the future.
11 Jan 2008 3:50am
Ricardo from Barcelona, Spain
A photo truly striking visually, I really like the result you obtained.
An greeting.
11 Jan 2008 10:47am
Reza from Montreal, Canada
I like the wavy reflection . and thank you for the information.
11 Jan 2008 3:44pm
bronzebilly u.k. from Barry,Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Very sharp, full of excellent detail ,on this gull series ManuelaR ..great work...
billy...
11 Jan 2008 11:24pm
José Neves from Entroncamento, Portugal
Um momento de grande beleza, o reflexo ainda dá mais valor ao registo.
Parabéns.
Bjs
12 Jan 2008 9:18pm
merdax from tehran, Iran
This one is Very nice one but the thing that brings me to think is...
how long did it take to capture?
you were hidden to cach it,it seems!
13 Jan 2008 6:25pm
@merdax: Not long really, just watched the seagull for a while until I understood what it was "playing".
As it kept repeating the game I had a few free attempts... ;)
Thanks for your visit and comment!
Sujit Sudhi from Hyderabad, India
Awesome. The colours, the ripples, just about everything is awesome.
14 Jan 2008 4:39am
Photographs by M.E. from Encino, United States
This is an awesome action shot! And, many thanks for sharing the tip Manuela!
15 Jan 2008 2:13am
