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

Witchpanther from Torino, Italy

i love it

10 Jan 2008 8:53am

martie from Japan

Great shot and way to "end" this one!

10 Jan 2008 9:13am

eddy from Tehran, Iran

EXCELLENT

10 Jan 2008 10:04am

shahab from Qazvin, Iran

Nice work!Well done!

10 Jan 2008 10:55am

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

I love the variation in values on his wings!!!

10 Jan 2008 12:09pm

Hester from Madrid, Spain

Es genial! Me encanta!! Buenisima captura!

10 Jan 2008 12:38pm

Steven from Montreal, Canada

Love the shape of the wings as well as the reflection!

10 Jan 2008 1:13pm

Eleftheria, 9 years old, from Athens, Greece

Nice shot!

10 Jan 2008 1:36pm

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 ;)

Teresa Durães from Montijo, Portugal

Nice capture :)

10 Jan 2008 2:42pm

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

Inés from Namur, Belgium

Une très belle série !!!!!

10 Jan 2008 5:00pm

Pedro from Santander, Spain

Great serie, for the end, the seagull fly away

10 Jan 2008 8:10pm

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

Wolfgang Prigge from Canada

That was a very good series!

10 Jan 2008 11:11pm

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Adorable capture!

10 Jan 2008 11:26pm

Camiller from Lisboa, Portugal

Seagull "wings effect". Great happy end. ;)

11 Jan 2008 1:08am

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

Shuva Brata Deb from Hyderabad, India

Love the wings!

11 Jan 2008 4:21pm

Sandra Rocha from Alfândega da Fé, Portugal

Mais um belo registo. 5*****

11 Jan 2008 10:06pm

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!

Shenne from Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal

Lovely

13 Jan 2008 9:22pm

Sujit Sudhi from Hyderabad, India

Awesome. The colours, the ripples, just about everything is awesome.

14 Jan 2008 4:39am

Fany from Madrid, Spain

Impressive shot!

14 Jan 2008 7:05pm

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