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Image Description

This is a multiple exposure of an agave, but I kept seeing a flock of birds in it.

Technical Details

All exposures at ISO 200, 50 mm, f2.8. Processing was routine except that I made the background bluer.

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Very cool, Don. I can definitely see the title in this image. I like the thought process that went into this one. I can’t think of anything you could do to make it work any better. Just a very interesting, well thought out image.

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Thanks, Dennis. :slight_smile:

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Is this an ICM style photo. I am not aware of multiple exposure and how its done. Very cool image and has a really nice flow. Maybe a little more contrast but it works fine as it is.

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Gill, I suspect that most cameras these days have settings allow you to combine multiple exposures into a single image. The camera is usually moved between exposures. You could move the camera during an exposure but I’ve never done it. So I wouldn’t include multiple exposures in the same category as ICM. It’s a different way to achieve a result that doesn’t replicate what you observed.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Dear Don,

Thanks for sharing this image. My immediate reaction: Fascinating patterns of colors and shapes. I am sometimes put off by multiexposure images, but in this image the quotation from reality is sufficiently strong (I think) to attract and retain my attention. Well seen.

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Thanks for the kind words. Leo.

Me too, including many of my own. :slight_smile:

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This definitely has a feeling of flight. Aesthetically, I could see cropping a bit off the left.

Ha ha, I can relate. I have LOTS of rejects in the archives. I save them so I know what didn’t work.

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At first I was not attracted to this image. When I enlarged it, my eye went directly to the lighter meeting of several angles, forming a star. What a lovely formation by mother nature! Nice focal point.

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Initial reaction: panic in the bird roost! Needs to be enlarged to see the detail of the leaf edges, which really adds something special! Well done – no nits!

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