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Just Missed - BANZAI!


Just Missed - BANZAI!
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Copyright: Jean Michel Peers (JeanMichel) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 633 W: 87 N: 938] (2864)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-01-13
Categories: Birds
Camera: Sony DSC-F717, Zeiss 2/9,7-48,5
Exposure: f/2.4, 1/640 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Just Missed Shots. [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-01-20 18:02
Viewed: 1604
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Not nearly missed, but completely missed shot, but I wanted to share it with yours!
The difference with you guys, like Callie and Gert, is that, if you miss 90% of these kinds of shots, you still have 10% to show, while I clearly miss 100% :-) (DSLR is planned to reduce this figure to 99% in two months or so). On the camera LCD, it didn't look too bad, so I thought I would impress Gert, Milloup, and many others with that :-) Another day.
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So, lets go for some notes.
This is a Barnacle Goose (BRANTA LEUCOPSIS), Bernache Nonette (F), a small migrating goose. Lives in limited geographical aeras. Commes from far North (East of Greenland, Spitzberg and New Zemble). They migrate thru the Baltic sea down to the Netherlands, also along the Norwegian coast down to Scotland.
They are not domesticated, but this year, there is a male and a female living on the Seine river bank near the Old Mill Bridge, in the middle of ducks, moorhens and gulls.
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BANZAI! From what you see, don't deduce that these geese are aggresive, rushing at poor ducks like a prey bird. It was only to escape and spoil my shot...:-(((
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Original just cropped on the scene and reduced to site size.
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To Jancie: I like that!JeanMichel 1 01-22 07:15
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Well, apart from the missed focus it's not too bad - light is good, whites are fairly okay the POV okay. Had it been sharp, I'd have suggested a major cloning job to get rid of the entire upper left corner.
For birds on the wing, why don't you use the viewfinder of the camera? You can do that with your camera as well as I can do it with my DSLR, and it does give you better control. Try it ;-))

Very good Jean M.
This is exactly what happens when you panning with a compact digi even if you use the EVF. The focus is impossible to get right and the camera is very slow to shoot, when you pull the "trigger" the bird is miles away before the camera shoots.
Great near misses.

Jean. Great contribution to the "collection" of "misfits" here..Great POV anyway ;-)))TFS!

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2816 W: 75 N: 7977] (26975)
  • [2005-01-21 4:14]

Yes, great near-miss or maybe even miss :-) I know this feeling - after walk you download 200 photos to computer and start counting...miss...miss...miss...wow! near-miss...almost-non-miss...miss :-)))
2pts for perfect picture to near-misses category

Composition: **
Sharpness: ***
Color: -** (- for minus)
DOF: -*
POV: *

You really missed it:
1. the roof
2. the duck
3. POV

Well, keep on trying, you'll make it.
Anyway 2pts

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  • Mluc Silver Star Critiquer [C: 11 W: 0 N: 0] (16)
  • [2005-01-21 8:15]

En effet c'est raté, patience ca viendra.

Nice one Jean, I mean the miss. Excellent miss shot. One of those that really turns the gut whern you see the result, especially when you don't always get the chance for a repeat.
Nice work

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2052 W: 315 N: 4301] (14719)
  • [2005-01-21 9:51]

What a perfect missed shoot. I am so happy to write this without hurting you, Jean-Michel. ;-)
Composition: ***
Sharpness: 0
DOF: 0
POV: ****
Color: ****
Tiens! Toi! Cette photo est nulle ;-)
Mais elle est un parfait exemple de ce qui se retrouve empilé dans mon ordi.
Bravo pour ton courage et ton humilité mais je possède de meilleures photos presques manquées que toi. Je ne pensais jamais pouvoir écrire une telle critique. Merci à Callie.
Je te souhaite quand même d'en réussir quelques bonnes et une ou deux excellentes. ;-)
Merci de partager.

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3464 W: 145 N: 5943] (17794)
  • [2005-01-21 15:09]
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Hey, don't worry Jean-Michel, the rock is nearly in focus. TFS. Bravo...

WOW, if you got this one frozen, it would have been a very nice shot. Very good one considering your equipment. Thanks Jean Michel.

Hi Jean Michel
This is how my first on the wing pictures looked like too, and still do most of the time! But as I have mentioned, I you never shoot these "just Missed" pictures, how will you built a wishlist, ang how will you know what to look-out for? So, well done on the learning curve. Birds on the wing are trickey, and SS of 1/1000 or more is what you really look at to "freeze" the motion.

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2005-01-23 16:14]

Well, I just had a though. If a new member joins and he looks at all these failed attempts he is going to leave and join a site where the guys can take pictures :)

Hopefully you dont want any ideas from me on how to fix this one.

Thanks for sharing

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