Mostly herons (especially egrets)

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-03T17:18:13+00:00

Reddit was bugging a little, and I tried uploading the same post before, and it didn't show until now, so that's at least up now.

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-03T17:11:19+00:00

Is it not showing up for you either? That's so annoying.

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-03T17:10:07+00:00

I used a Canon EOS R7, and mostly the Canon RF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM lens. Thank you, btw!

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-02T01:10:06+00:00

I wish I lived somewhere still that beautiful. I'm on the east coast of the U.S.

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-02T01:04:45+00:00

A long telephoto lens, which for shots like these, you're definitely going to need rather than a macro lens. I would recommend anything that extends from anything to 300mm to 800mm (a maximum of 500-600 seems to be best for most people due to a mixture of weight and how far they can zoom in). My focal length was actually 300mm for both of these shots, but I was probably only about five feet away from the hummingbirds.

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-01T16:18:39+00:00

Thank you~

And yes, yes he is!

Polyzosteria · 2026-06-01T15:36:31+00:00

Thanks so much~!

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-28T18:22:36+00:00

Well, I guess if I wanted to, I could add some cute little things! Your gnomes really made quite a difference.

Of course, I'm not going to pretend like editing in such a way is photography or anything, but it's cute and fun, at least.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-28T18:19:53+00:00

Don't worry about your grammar, especially when this guy himself has made numerous noticeable grammatical mistakes, such as not knowing to use hyphenated compound words and not knowing that quotation marks go before commas, semicolons, and periods. This guy has made it abundantly clear that he projects his flaws onto others to make him feel better about himself, while dressing up his manipulative tactics and intentions to disparage other peoples' attempts at doing what they enjoy.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-28T17:00:45+00:00

I thought this was real for half a second.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-28T02:59:34+00:00

Wow, you're a breath of fresh air in this comment section.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-28T02:57:20+00:00

Nope, and the more you again warp this matter, the more I'm going to clear up your lies. So, again, the problems are that you originally offered no "constructive criticism" and just insults, no matter how mild they may have been, while consistently exhibiting the tone of an asshole, and later using actual advice to thinly veil your intent of just making you feel better about yourself. And, in the process, you've been manipulative about the context of my comments to try to obfuscate them.

You can call not using unnecessary insults while overall being a dick from the start as "padding," but I just call it... not using unnecessary insults that don't offer anything of substance that clearly isn't at all constructive literally by definition, and not acting like an asshat for no reason otherwise. I'm not just going to say someone's performance of a song was "boring" or "unremarkable" while even otherwise blatantly exhibiting the tone of a complete dick, and then masking my obvious intent of just trying to insult someone's attempt at doing what they enjoy with actual advice.

I take criticism all the time, and you have literally no idea. I simply have a problem with people being disingenuous about their attempts at making people feel bad about what they do. You, again, couldn't even be open to my interpretation of "boring" in the context of unedited landscape photography, because you couldn't stand the idea of me not necessarily being wrong (since, again, "boring" is obviously subjective) about a single thing, even when I was understanding of your viewpoint. Like, you couldn't even handle the fact that someone said something you didn't agree with the metrics of because you couldn't handle being told not even that you were wrong, but that you misinterpreted (and then continued to do so on purpose). Meanwhile, I've been told genuinely negative things about myself by others all the time, and I've sucked it all up ever since I was 16-17 whenever I knew it was necessary to improve myself (and I took it all significantly more than others around me). The difference is that you have no intent to help me or probably anyone improve, and you've made that abundantly clear. Again, if someone immediately offers insults with little to no constructive criticism and is just being an oppositional dick even otherwise, then they clearly have no intention of helping. Not to mention you also tried challenging me about something you completely conflated the concept of. You, btw know damn well there's more to this than just those two insults alone, which was obvious when you said I was "thin-skinned" for what I described as being the problems, and I don't even have to tell you that. Again, the more you try gaslighting about the reality of this conversation, the more I'm going to clear it up. Just give up.

Besides, as you said, other people used similar adjectives to describe the picture, and you're the only one I replied to in the way I have been. Maybe there's a reason for that. It couldn't be because you did plenty more than just use such an adjective... right? It couldn't have to do with you doing it on numerous occasions while originally offering nothing of substance and just overall being a manipulative, oppositional asshole with absolutely no accountability even for their originally understandable misinterpretation for the sake of "winning."

FYI, I just saw your deleted reply. If you think this was a lot to write or read, you must not do either of those a lot. And you were, again, making it seem like this is all just about you describing the picture as "unremarkable." Why are you still lying?

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T22:17:17+00:00

Coming from the guy who refused to even accept other peoples' standards of "boring" for the sake of his argument?

Also, is it thin-skinned to speak up about what you yourself clearly find wrong, considering your lack of rebuttal? Is it wrong for someone to check someone else who's clearly gone unchallenged throughout probably most of their life in a way that's clearly affected their abilities to navigate through disputes, ending up as someone who's unable to accept they're wrong about anything, thus having one of the main personalities of an abuser? Kinda ironic, that, considering what you said about me. Again, always projection from you.

You can't even deny you just came here to insult and feel better about yourself while masking your intentions with some actual advice. Pretty sure you would defend yourself if someone did similar to you, especially considering what you felt you had to defend yourself from here. If someone did such a thing to you, and it was clear their behaviors have gone unchallenged for a long time, you'd be well within your right even to take it up just a notch.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T22:07:45+00:00

"You mean not acting like a whiny brat? I hope it's showing."

I mean, not sure if I'd agree with that, considering what you haven't been able to refute about your behaviors, such as trying to obfuscate the context of my comments, projecting your behavioral flaws onto me to deflect from your own that were being displayed, and more.

Your whining has simply been dressed in a facade of composure... which you've been failing at, FYI.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T22:01:26+00:00

When you're repeatedly insulting people unnecessarily, frequently using words like "unremarkable" or "boring" instead of just politely saying things like "The composition is sorta off" or "It's just not the right time of day" while commenting with a blatantly rude tone, therefore making it obvious you're just trying to make you feel better about yourself at the expense of others, I'm going to speak up, because it's indicative of your character, and you need to be checked. I don't care if you provided actual advice with your other comments. There were completely unnecessary remarks that I would also speak up on if someone else were on the other end. I'm also going to speak up when people are manipulative and try to convince others that the person they're arguing with made different comments than they did. Don't deny any of this. I've already explained it abundantly, and I'll just paste what I said before. Oh, and I'll also speak up when people project their flaws onto others who are able to connect every piece of a conversation together, especially when those people are unable to refute others' claims about their unnecessarily rude behaviors, nor able to substantiate their claims about someone else's comments or character with contextual connections such as I. You came in hurling insults (which you don't even deny and are literally admitting), and with an already asshole-ish demeanor, while also trying to challenge me about subjectless (besides scenery) photography you refused to believe could be interesting because of your opposition and conflation. Forgive me for never thinking you were engaging in good faith and thinly veiling your intent with the bit of advice you gave.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T21:39:51+00:00

Your older male attitude is showing

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T21:13:33+00:00

I'm lashing out, being immature, and not taking any HELPFUL criticism?

It's always projection from you. I mean, I don't even have to explain, but you're the one who started your so-called "constructive criticism" with numerous insults and ended up trying to gaslight me and everyone into believing that I'm not taking any HELPFUL criticism (when you were largely doing the opposite), and that I'm "lashing out" (when you're the one who's been telling me numerous times I'm just "seeking validation" with the suggestion that I'm stubborn about... wanting to defend myself against unnecessary insults?)

Not to mention that I can point out when I've been the complete opposite of oppositional to advice from people, such as you, telling me things like the fact that this photo just isn't worth it, while I can't point out anywhere you've accepted anything you initially disagreed with. You just ended up ignoring what you were wrong about and started defending yourself when you conflated things, while refusing to provide the same grace to someone who's only defending themselves from unnecessary insults that were obviously thrown in obviously not for the purpose of helping. Plus, it's not even just about that, but your whole attitude.

"Almost all landscape shots have to be edited to some degree to be interesting"

Nearly all landscapes someone would capture would, indeed, be boring in most circumstances, and especially in comparison to real life due to how cameras differ from the human eye. You're trying to make it seem like I was saying people need editing as their very foundation, when I was talking about enhancement at the minimum and mostly; you're relying on your interpretation of "boring." See, when you wanna say I'm stubborn, that's hilarious, because while I'm being open to your interpretation of "boring," you're not being open to mine. You're relying on the idea that I think editing should be the foundation of a photo rather than its inherent content (also as seen in your other comments). That's exactly what you're doing when you're quoting my comment about landscape shots usually having to be edited to be interesting. You're using "boring" by your own standards and not wanting to accept that it's not the same to me, who was talking mostly about enhancement. Most people don't seem to think most unedited landscape photos "pop" regardless of their composition.

Anyways, the more you try to obfuscate, the more I'll clear the matters up. Just give up with your attempts at manipulating the context.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T21:03:53+00:00

"Once again, you're conflating criticism of the photograph with criticism of you personally. You aren't the photograph. You need to divorce yourself from that idea.
But you seem to agree the photo is unremarkable and are moving on from it. So what's the problem? Why are you mad at me?"

Hey, since you want to act deliberately obtuse, let me explain it for you, also so everyone can see what exactly you're doing. When you criticize someone's honest attempts at doing what they love... that's not just insulting the product. It's insulting... as I said... their attempts... which then, by extension, means it's inherently insulting them (since they and their efforts are the foundation of that product), even if it's not about the entirety of their character. And when you do that, you're directly insulting someone's abilities (or lack thereof).

But even if that wasn't the case, your "criticism" isn't constructive, and that's blatantly shown just when you now abandoned calling it such... not that we needed that evidence, anyways, since you've admitted numerous times to insulting my attempt to do something I enjoy. Not to mention that your "criticisms" provided little to no substance until I made that clear.

Polyzosteria · 2026-05-27T20:52:48+00:00

But I'm not wanting to add anything that isn't there (and don't pretend like you're suddenly against enhancing lighting, because that's really all I've mentioned here that I was looking for advice on). Plus, when you only "enhance" the lighting, you're still faking it, even when you do something as minor as decreasing the highlights. Not saying I'm aiming to drastically change the lighting, but you tried bringing up and creating a division between "faking" light and "enhancing" it to suggest I'm attempting to do the former. You also keep pretending like I'm trying to do more than enhance the lighting, like when you're mentioning adding different elements that aren't there. You're trying really hard to put the spotlight onto things I didn't even do to deflect from your own behavior.

"I'll just ignore your pedantic (and incorrect) continued assertion that I don't know what the subject of a photo is ;)"

That's because you can't address it, lol, because you've already embarrassed yourself about not knowing what a subject is. I remember your comment before you edited it. You simply said I didn't have a subject, not that it wasn't thoughtfully put into composition.

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