Corelas Flocking - Gammon Ranges National Park

nice composition.

very good colors.

A feast for your eyes... Great Job

Has this photo been 'enhanced' in any way? If it has, it is not a big deal to me because art is art no matter what. Whether this is a photo or enhanced photo, the result is a very, very beautiful image. So beautiful in fact, that I kept staring at it. I stared at it so long that I began to question why the light is coming through all the birds wings at that angle & intensity when the sun does not appear to be directly overhead. When I zoom in on this image, it appears that the pixels around the birds do not line up with the texture of the sky. I am hoping that you say that this is one, true photograph and not a composite so I know that such beauty really exists somewhere out there. All of the pictures in your folders are beautiful. I am very sorry if this question insults you in any way. That is not my intent at all. =o)

This picture is wonderful! I just love the color of that blue in the sky and the birds are a great touch to it. You took a wonderful picture!

Great picture, I really like it but...there is a slight magenta hue...I know it´s not in my monitor.

It`s so nice

Well done

I think this photo is just fabulous, It remind

me of some of my work.

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everything in your Portfolio is amazing.

Do you mind if I come over to Australia and spend my time cleaning your lenses and looking at you in the attempt to learn something? ;-)

The novice side of me said, "wow, i wish i could take pictures like this one." The expert side of me said, "Judging from the tree branch's shadow, the sun appears to be about the same height as the tree top. Those birds must be flying way above the treetop, then light must have shined those bird's belly. However, in this picture, light appears to shine on top of those birds which suggests the sun was high above the treetop and the birds"

 

Light from the tree and the birds contradicts.

There's no enhancement, contradiction or tricks Jay. It's your eyes that are playing tricks on you. The birds are flapping their wings madly, there is backlight and reflected light here. The trees have foliage that is facing in a thousand directions all at once. The birds are at all different altitudes and attitudes of bank, turn and yaw. You'll just have to take my word for it: it's not faked. Some of this has been discussed above in the earlier comments. There is a whole sequence leading up to this pic reproduced somewhere in one of my comments. This ended up being a lucky shot, despite the full day and the roll of film it took me to capture.

oooh! You got in on medium format! Time to start selling this one! Good job.

for taking me out of the doors where I long to be. Very kind of environment I've been missing since long. Thanks.

This is a beautiful shot. The lighting on the birds' wings and the trees is magnificent. The clouds offer a wonderful backdrop for the birds.

I do walk in the parks, lie on the grass but never saw something amazing like that.

I can't believe we've fallen for it again!

 

This image is obviously manipulated using the so-called "duocaff decaff half-caff" method of image manipulation (named by the coffee-loving photographer and weather forecaster Harris Telemacher ca 1991).

 

This method of photomanipulation was popular in Southern California in the early 1990's, but fell out of favour with the Pollo del Mar crowd (an influential photography group based out of Orange County) because of its ease of detection.

 

You simply sample all pixels in the image for RGB values, do a matrix multiplication by the identity matrix, subtract the value of each resultant pixel's channel value by itself, and if you get a black image, it's been manipulated in this fashion.

 

I hate to draw out this boring history, but in order to understand how Tony Dummett duped you with his blatent image manipulation, you have to understand this.

 

Around 1997, this manipulation technique was basically dead, relegated to the history books. But for some reason, around 1999, it began to take hold in the Australia and New Zealand photography circles.

 

Tony Dummett is obviously not even very original. He's just following a fad.

 

It's just a shame that we've been duped. In order to fully understand the extent of our dupedness, you can watch a documentary on this photographic technique. It came out (obviously) around 1991. I think the name is "L.A. Story" or something. I can probably dig out more references if you need them.

 

Good luck, and may the crusade to impale all image manipulators never end!

 

update: feb 2003: this troll has been here long enough. just so you know, i was joking. multiply by identity matrix and subtract by itself and *EVERY IMAGE* will become black. this photo ain't fake. i put a lot of hints in there, but most of this stuff is references to the classic film "L.A. Story" with Steve Martin.

It is an impact image! Well done and great sensibility.

God I love this picture. This one and the marsh shot just blow my socks off. What more can I say.

I don't know what to believe about the "realness" of this picture, but the fact is that is looks great.

To save you all the trouble of trolling through the comments, this picture is completely real. I had spent all day waiting for this moment (when it came I saw it for what it was), but I still can't really believe it actually happened. A lucky confluence of stubbornness, exposure and well placed corelas. If you look here, you'll see that on the earlier shots either the light was bland, the clouds (or birds, or both) were absent or the camera was blurred (shake and/or focus).

I didn't realize that you could pan a P67,

and get sharp results like this. What focal

length lens did you use?