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    A Family portrait

    I was mooching around outside, doing nothing much of anything, planning what I wasn't going to do for the rest of the day, when I met up with this family group at the front gate. They were obliging enough to wait patiently whilst I hopped back inside the house to grab a camera, and then they kindly posed as a family group for me.

    A Family portrait

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    Re: A Family portrait

    And it looks as if they put some work into arranging themselves to provide you with a well composed image: "No dear, you turn your body just a little more towards him." "I'll not look directly at camera. More off-into-the-middle-distance sort of look"

    Now, I'll let you get back to doing nothing.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    The shot is OK, Ken as well as the posing, but I am bothered by those three dark brown twigs near the top of the head of the biggest roo.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Nicely captured.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Quote Originally Posted by ucci View Post
    ....................... when I met up with this family group at the front gate. ...............................
    ...so is this natural history or street photography? Nice shot.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Quote Originally Posted by IzzieK View Post
    The shot is OK, Ken as well as the posing, but I am bothered by those three dark brown twigs near the top of the head of the biggest roo.
    Very nice picture. I have to say that the 'dark brow twigs' (which look like grass heads to me) do not distract me at all. They are just what you would expect to find in a place like that.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Hi Ken, lovely pose

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Thank you to all those lovely folk who took the trouble and time to provide helpful feedback. Your encouragements are very much appreciated.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Nice capture, Ken. Better they are at the front gate, than in the top paddock

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Gosh, I only have rabbits in my yard. I feel slighted...

    Great capture.

    I hope you don't mind. I copied this into Photoshop and opened my NIK Viveza plug-in. Putting a couple of control points on each roo and grouping them, then sightly increasing the saturation and significantly increasing the structure seems to allow the roos to pop out a bit more from the background. What do you think? I will remove the image if you desire...

    A Family portrait

    I remember driving from Exmouth to the U.S. Navy Radio Station on my first day in Western Australia and seeing a wild kangaroo for the first time. My driver, who was Australian couldn't understand why his Yank passenger was so excited...
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    Re: A Family portrait

    Quote Originally Posted by rpcrowe View Post
    Gosh, I only have rabbits in my yard. I feel slighted...

    Great capture.

    I hope you don't mind. I copied this into Photoshop and opened my NIK Viveza plug-in. Putting a couple of control points on each roo and grouping them, then sightly increasing the saturation and significantly increasing the structure seems to allow the roos to pop out a bit more from the background. What do you think? I will remove the image if you desire...

    A Family portrait

    I remember driving from Exmouth to the U.S. Navy Radio Station on my first day in Western Australia and seeing a wild kangaroo for the first time. My driver, who was Australian couldn't understand why his Yank passenger was so excited...
    Of Course not Richard. That is what it all about. Experimenting. Learning. I just feel flattered that you felt motivated enough to take it a further step. Your roos and background are sharper. However I have to admit that I was trying for a 'softer' look to stop the Portraiture Perfectos from ripping into me, since I had the effrontry to post this as a portrait! LOL
    And though we enjoy seeing them, at last estimate, we had around 200 plus of these buggers freeloading on our place. Most of them have learned that we are no threat to them and so have come to tolerate us at short distance, close up. They seem to be able to clearly differentiate us and our vehicles from others. So the novelty value of seeing them in the wild has lessened somewhat. But we can fully understand your enthusiasm at seeing your first few.

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    Re: A Family portrait

    Nice shot of the family, Ken! Consider sharpening the animals a bit more, as they appear soft when the larger version is displayed.

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