[SI] "FGS" 'Duck Comments

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‘Duck comments:
Once more we have the most of the usual suspects to deal with. Thanks
for showing up guys!

Tim Conway:
FGS-01: “OLD!!!�
As a solarization it is OK, I guess. It meets the mandate loosely.
A little more effort next time please. ;-)

Eric Stevens:
FGS-01:
“F, G, & S� in one shot. Just not what I would call much more than a
parking lot shot.
FGS-02:
Now this is an interesting and imaginative way to give us the mandate
required “F, G, & S�.
FGS-03:
Once more you manage to get all three letters into this shot. Who would
have thought there would be a Chinese restaurant called the “Fo Guang
Shan Temple� in of all places, Auckland. ;-)

Savageduck (yours truly):
FGS-01:
My late replacement submission, a “Focke-Wulf 190�
FGS-02:
This one might be able to fit “F, G, or S� it is a Ford Shelby G.T.500
FGS-03:
In running around out in my part of the California boondocks, I drove
past this abandoned sofa/couch regularly. It was a very surreal sight,
seeing it sitting out at the edge of a field, and I had been thinking
of using it to some photographic purpose before it disappeared. That
was weeks ago, and the damn thing is still there.

Bob Flint:
FGS-01:
Nice macro of the “forager�. Good interplay of the light and shadows.
FGS-02:
“Garden Goodies� You couldn’t find some gooseberries?
I think you should think of stretching your subject material and get
out of the garden for some of these shoot-Ins.
FGS-03:
I was wondering when we were going to get a spider. Nicely done.
Perhaps stopping down a tad to have a slightly less shallow DOF.

Peter Newman:
FGS-01:
“Fine feathered friend� indeed. That looks to be a “Mouse Bird� given
too much of the PeterN treatment. Where did you find it? I got my shot
in South Africa.
http://db.tt/yLvl3xvg
FGS-02:
Going PS crazy are we?
This is just so wrong! Funny, but so wrong. …and give the Gazelle both
his “L’s�. ;-)
FGS-03:
I love the metallic grey with the bright copper glow. Nice!

Bowser:
FGS-01:
You had to do it didn’t you?
However, you got the full “F, G, S� covered, with “ Flying Seagull in Glide�.
FGS-02:
Nice frog.
FGS-03:
‘Gator, but wouldn’t this one be considered an “Albino ‘Gator�? Nice capture.

Bob Coe:
FGS-01:
Come on Bob! That is not surf. A pleasant enough shot, but surf?
FGS-02:
OK! I will buy “Foam� for this one. Nicely executed, and captures what
happens with waves pushing their way through a slot in the rocks.
FGS-03:
I guess you have to let your imagination drift a bit for this one.

KPet
FGS-01:
Nice bucolic landscape, with fields, farm, & forest, but you have also
captured a “silo� in its natural habitat.
FGS-02:
This I like with the rainbow fighting through the gloom. Good work.
FGS-03:
Nice concept, but there is no definition to the ship particularly with
regard to scale. Then it is, …er, so “blue�, and I am sure a more
pleasing crop could be found somewhere in there.

Martha Coe
FGS-01:
Nice shot. I will take your word for the rocks being granite. Nice
reflections in the foreground. All very pleasant and enjoyable.
FGS-02:
Another nice capture showing the character of the park. A fine postcard.
FGS-03
Nice Sunset, but it is overpowered by the deep foreground shadows.
This is an opportunity lost, but with a possible rescue by a crop
saving the upper right 2/3. This would place the vertical crop line to
the right of the tree silhouette (tree be gone) and the lower
horizontal crop line just below the body of water on the lower right.
Perhaps something like this:
http://db.tt/XaErQFVl


Tony Cooper:
FGS-01:
Nice work Tony! I like this spiral staircase. The wood with the
polished hand rail is so warm and appealing.
FGS-02:
Got some young thugs there? I think the real character is the kid with
the face paint, not the mouth guard chewer.
FGS-03:
…and it’s a Ford grill so you got an “F & G� in one. Nice shot, but I
suspect that vehicle leans towards hotrod rather than classic
restoration.

ClearyC:
FGS-01:
Nice capture with the butterfly feeding at the flower. I suspect that
this was not a macro, but a crop from a larger original. There seems to
be some noise which you might have been able to fix, and that is also
in the detail of the butterfly, making things a little fuzzy.
FGS-02:
Nice abstract! I think this would make PeterN envious, it is his kind
of picture. Great colors, movement and over all effect. Good work.

DaveC:
FGS-01:
Great action capture. It is all there, and the surfer is without doubt
going sideways one way or another.

DanP:
FGS-01:
OK! What do we have here? Flower, grass, and could that be a slug?

Otter:
FGS-01:
Great capture! Entertaining, fun, and meets the mandate. What more
could you want?

Sid:
FGS-01:
Nice pooch!
FGS-02:
This seascape is a great scene, but I find the blown patch of cloud in
the upper left not quite right, and I am not sure what could be done to
fix that. I like the way the light hits the foam around the rocks
contrasting with the grass and wild flowers going to the shoreline.
Perhaps a crop might help my sensitively here?
http://db.tt/aoI2g36h
FGS-03:
Nice berries, somewhat marred by focus issues. I am at a loss as to how
these fit the “FGS� mandate?

Alan Browne: (Pending)
FGS-01:
FGS-02:
FGS-03:

Once more thanks to all for rising to the challenge.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 10/2/2012 5:49 PM, Savageduck wrote:
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Peter Newman:
FGS-01:
“Fine feathered friend� indeed. That looks to be a “Mouse Bird�
given too much of the PeterN treatment. Where did you find it? I got my
shot in South Africa.
http://db.tt/yLvl3xvg

It's a cuckoo chick taken at the Bronx Zoo.
I over sharpened the image and didn't see how bad it is until posted in
the SI.

FGS-02:
Going PS crazy are we?
This is just so wrong! Funny, but so wrong. …and give the Gazelle both
his “L’s�. ;-)

Yeah, I did make a careless selection. I also should make a shadow under
it and smooth its sharp edges.


FGS-03:
I love the metallic grey with the bright copper glow. Nice!
I doubt if any other interpretation of s synchrotron has been submitted
in the SI.

Thanks for your comments.

BTW some of the text was garbled, as you can tell even in this snippet.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

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‘Duck comments:
Once more we have the most of the usual suspects to deal with. Thanks
for showing up guys!


Bob Flint:
FGS-01:
Nice macro of the “forager”. Good interplay of the light and shadows.

I wanted to catch him flying but gave up... I do like the flowers though.

FGS-02:
“Garden Goodies” You couldn’t find some gooseberries?
I think you should think of stretching your subject material and get
out of the garden for some of these shoot-Ins.

First day I had this camera... was wandering around the house testing it and
running back and forth to the computer. Not a lot of 'G's around here... garden
kind of fit the mandate... no gooseberries of any kind...

FGS-03:
I was wondering when we were going to get a spider. Nicely done.
Perhaps stopping down a tad to have a slightly less shallow DOF.


The ones with smaller aperture showed all the crap in the background, I picked
this one for the uniform gray against the web. I could have tried a few more
variations I guess, but most of the spider was focused.

Thanks for the comments.

On Oct 2, 4:50*pm, Savageduck wrote:
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‘Duck comments:
Once more we have the most of the usual suspects to deal with. Thanks
for showing up guys!

Otter:
FGS-01:
Great capture! Entertaining, fun, and meets the mandate. What more
could you want?

Thanks.

I'm afraid it might take a day or two before I can post my comments.
I do have some comments, though, especially for Mr Newman. I can't
get that picture out of my head, thank you very much!

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
: SI Mandate: http://www.pbase.com/shootin/letters_fgs
:
: ‘Duck comments:
: Once more we have the most of the usual suspects to deal with. Thanks
: for showing up guys!

: ...

: Bob Coe:
: FGS-01:
: Come on Bob! That is not surf. A pleasant enough shot, but surf?

Eastern surf. We take what nature offers us.

: FGS-02:
: OK! I will buy “Foam” for this one. Nicely executed, and captures what
: happens with waves pushing their way through a slot in the rocks.

Thanks! Thunder Hole is my favorite spot in the park. It's the only place I
remember from my first visit, about 60 years ago!

: FGS-03:
: I guess you have to let your imagination drift a bit for this one.

C'mon, Duck, don't you see the eye and mouth?

: ...

: Martha Coe
: FGS-01:
: Nice shot. I will take your word for the rocks being granite. Nice
: reflections in the foreground. All very pleasant and enjoyable.

The whole island is granite!

: FGS-02:
: Another nice capture showing the character of the park. A fine postcard.
: FGS-03
: Nice Sunset, but it is overpowered by the deep foreground shadows.
: This is an opportunity lost, but with a possible rescue by a crop
: saving the upper right 2/3. This would place the vertical crop line to
: the right of the tree silhouette (tree be gone) and the lower
: horizontal crop line just below the body of water on the lower right.
: Perhaps something like this:
: http://db.tt/XaErQFVl

What it needs is a white border. Which the photo editor I use, Digital Photo
Pro, doesn't (alas!) provide. I basically knew it would fade into the black
Pbase backgoround; but we thought it was better than the sunsets I got that
evening, so we went with it. And I totally disagree about the tree; I think
it's a necessary compositional element. Without it, some of my sunsets *were*
better!

BTW, Martha and I have found on this and many other occasions, that we tend to
do our best work when we go on photo shoots together. We don't get to do it as
often as I would like, but it always seems to work when we do.

Bob

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

Eric Stevens:
FGS-01:
“F, G, & S” in one shot. Just not what I would call much more than a
parking lot shot.

Why not? It meets FGS to a T.

FGS-02:
Now this is an interesting and imaginative way to give us the mandate
required “F, G, & S”.
FGS-03:
Once more you manage to get all three letters into this shot. Who would
have thought there would be a Chinese restaurant called the “Fo Guang
Shan Temple” in of all places, Auckland. ;-)

Chinese Restaurant? Does it look like a restaurant?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo_Guan...mple,_Auckland
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2012-10-02 21:35:44 -0700, Eric Stevens said:

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

Eric Stevens:
FGS-01:
“F, G, & S” in one shot. Just not what I would call much more than a
parking lot shot.

Why not? It meets FGS to a T.

Absolutely! However it remains a shot of vehicles outside a business
establishment.


FGS-02:
Now this is an interesting and imaginative way to give us the mandate
required “F, G, & S”.
FGS-03:
Once more you manage to get all three letters into this shot. Who would
have thought there would be a Chinese restaurant called the “Fo Guang
Shan Temple” in of all places, Auckland. ;-)

Chinese Restaurant? Does it look like a restaurant?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo_Guan...mple,_Auckland

I see my attempt at humor failed.



--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2012-10-02 22:15:10 -0700, tony cooper said:

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:00:49 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2012-10-02 21:35:44 -0700, Eric Stevens said:

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

Eric Stevens:
FGS-01:
“F, G, & S” in one shot. Just not what I would call much more than a
parking lot shot.

Why not? It meets FGS to a T.

Absolutely! However it remains a shot of vehicles outside a business
establishment.


FGS-02:
Now this is an interesting and imaginative way to give us the mandate
required “F, G, & S”.
FGS-03:
Once more you manage to get all three letters into this shot. Who would
have thought there would be a Chinese restaurant called the “Fo Guang
Shan Temple” in of all places, Auckland. ;-)

Chinese Restaurant? Does it look like a restaurant?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo_Guan...mple,_Auckland

I see my attempt at humor failed.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha will get you for that.


Is he related to the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

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‘Duck comments:
Once more we have the most of the usual suspects to deal with. Thanks
for showing up guys!


Bowser:
FGS-01:
You had to do it didn’t you?
However, you got the full “F, G, S” covered, with “ Flying Seagull in Glide”.

You know me all too well...

FGS-02:
Nice frog.

I like frogs. They're always smiling at me.

FGS-03:
‘Gator, but wouldn’t this one be considered an “Albino ‘Gator”? Nice capture.

Yeah, but still a gator. Pretty cool one, too.

On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 01:16:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2012-10-02 22:15:10 -0700, tony cooper said:

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:00:49 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2012-10-02 21:35:44 -0700, Eric Stevens said:

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:49:58 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

Eric Stevens:
FGS-01:
“F, G, & S” in one shot. Just not what I would call much more than a
parking lot shot.

Why not? It meets FGS to a T.

Absolutely! However it remains a shot of vehicles outside a business
establishment.


FGS-02:
Now this is an interesting and imaginative way to give us the mandate
required “F, G, & S”.
FGS-03:
Once more you manage to get all three letters into this shot. Who would
have thought there would be a Chinese restaurant called the “Fo Guang
Shan Temple” in of all places, Auckland. ;-)

Chinese Restaurant? Does it look like a restaurant?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo_Guan...mple,_Auckland

I see my attempt at humor failed.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha will get you for that.


Is he related to the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Buddha ate the Flying Spaghetti Monster, apparently.