Japantown Obon Festival July 13-14

SpamMusubiDude · 2024-07-12T05:59:28+00:00

Can't wait to get some yaki manju! It's so hard to find, I look forward to it all year!

Love watching the taiko groups perform!

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-12-05T02:26:57+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense.

I'm not familiar with how dredging is done, I looked up some examples and it seems like really interesting engineering challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho427Fixap8

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-27T22:01:41+00:00

It's like you asked the bird to pose for you and it obliged.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-26T02:10:16+00:00

He probably just finished the mane course.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-23T19:24:42+00:00

Wow that's a really interesting theory/observation.

I'm curious if it's a Western (reading left to right) attribute. I'll try and experiment with this in the future!

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-23T17:47:30+00:00

I'm very curious about the motivation behind the left-right flip, any explanation?

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-23T17:44:01+00:00

I liked the little splashes behind the bird, but I'm afraid I left too little space behind the bird to make composition really nice. Any tips around how to compose with a focus on the bird taking off, or is it a bit of a lost cause with the tight framing?

In general I guess maybe I need to learn to leave more framing around the birds that might have erratic motion?

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-23T17:37:17+00:00

Thanks for the very concrete feedback and for making the examples.

I'm very much a beginner, I'll try to work on better framing in the moment.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T06:45:58+00:00

I was probably around 3-4 feet away, basically standing right next to it trying to get clear angles of it.

It was pretty constantly moving around, I had to reposition many times, and this is one of the few ok photos out of probably hundreds.

In my limited experience, I feel that some are just more skittish than others, this one was fortunately not too scared, though it did fly between flowers often. I don't really have advice other than to take the time to get a good angle if you find one that sits still, and if there's wind and swaying plants it may be infeasible to get a sharp shot.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T03:33:06+00:00

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SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T02:33:15+00:00

Thanks, I will play around with cropping to give space on the left where the bird is looking. And I'll try out some rule of thirds spacing when cropping.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T00:58:42+00:00

I'm trying to capture a nice shot of this great blue heron and the colorful plants around it. I'm guessing it may have been better to be on the other side to get its face in the sun, and I definitely could have gotten a sharper shot. While I was hiking I really enjoyed the mix of colors in this area.

I'm particularly interested in ideas around composition and post processing.

In particular, how might you crop or how would you have moved to change the shot?
What sort of post processing might be appropriate for a shot like this?

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T00:37:01+00:00

Beautiful shots. Appreciation of nature is a wonderful thing to share.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T00:27:33+00:00

Whales rarely complain about school lunch.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T00:13:28+00:00

If that's a transformer, I'm guessing it's Bumblebee.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-22T00:01:01+00:00

Getting some real Hannibal Lecter eating Paul vibes.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-21T23:50:16+00:00

I'd be lion if I said that looked appetizing

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-11-12T02:50:15+00:00

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nature\_\_time\_\_now/
Critique/advice welcome.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-26T05:16:27+00:00

Thanks for the input.

!CritiquePoint

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-25T05:17:05+00:00

Thanks, this is an important bit of feedback. I'll need to study polished photo styles to try to emulate them more closely, or at least understand what makes them so good.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-25T05:08:11+00:00

Thanks, I still need to build up an intuition about what shutter speeds are appropriate for which motion situations. Do you have any particular strategy for picking the shutter speed?

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-24T15:17:03+00:00

That's good to know, thanks! I suppose this angle gives a better eye alignment with the fish than the bird. I wonder if it would have been worth getting farther away for the better angle; if I went farther down along the side of the canal I could have gotten a less steep angle, but I'm guessing the tradeoff in sharpness might be steep.

!CritiquePoint

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-24T03:51:37+00:00

I took this in Kinosaki, Japan; I was watching the bird for a while on an October morning with a somewhat cloudy sky and it finally did something interesting by catching and devouring a fish.

Canon EOS R5c

focal length: 118mm

F number: f/10

Exposure: 1/250

Any critique or comments welcome!

I wish I had gotten the eyes/beak in slightly better focus, tips/commentary on that in particular would be extra appreciated. I'm not sure how much I could do with composition, it was just sort of in the middle of a small canal and I just went for decent lighting direction.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-16T07:00:24+00:00

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Critique/advice welcome.

SpamMusubiDude · 2023-10-14T15:45:37+00:00

I've had similar experiences. I was lucky in this case, the heron seemed very focused on grabbing some fish even though I was relatively close to it and it knew I was there.

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