Good Morning Singapore

[leslie1283]

Facing: South West
Location: Gardens by The Bay (East). Singapore
Date: 23 June 2013

I took this shot at Gardens by The Bay East, Singapore. The background is Singapore Flyer. I wonder what the name of the little bird is.

[HAZZA]

great shot Leslie, I was there last year and saw these birds, they were too quick for me so you did well

[John 2]

Good eye. It's a great capture and a nice image.

[leslie1283]

Hi Harry, Thank you. they are fast & I managed to snap just a shot.

[leslie1283]

Thank you John.

[Ken Curtis]

Hi Leslie. An interesting idea of shooting the bird against a merry-go-round in the background. For me, the bird is the main object. He is very small. Perhaps he should have been given more room in the photo compared to the sky and merry-go-round. Possibly you could have moved a bit closer, zoomed in and taken the shot with the bird higher up and closer to the merry-go-round. Alternately, in post processing, you can move the bird and plant higher up and then crop to make a vertically oriented image.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Leslie,I like the shot very much as it is

[IzzieK]

Hi Leslie. An interesting idea of shooting the bird against a merry-go-round in the background. For me, the bird is the main object. He is very small. Perhaps he should have been given more room in the photo compared to the sky and merry-go-round. Possibly you could have moved a bit closer, zoomed in and taken the shot with the bird higher up and closer to the merry-go-round. Alternately, in post processing, you can move the bird and plant higher up and then crop to make a vertically oriented image.

I think by the time Leslie1283 thought of all these, the bird would have been gone...

Leslie1283 please nice enough to fill in your location and name in your profile...thanks.

[leslie1283]

Hi Isabel,
Done

[leslie1283]

Hi Ken,
Thank you for your suggestion and advice. In fact, after I have taken this shot, I tried to move closer but it flew away. I will try to crop it.

[leslie1283]

Hi Binnur,
Thanks

[leslie1283]

Hi Leslie. An interesting idea of shooting the bird against a merry-go-round in the background. For me, the bird is the main object. He is very small. Perhaps he should have been given more room in the photo compared to the sky and merry-go-round. Possibly you could have moved a bit closer, zoomed in and taken the shot with the bird higher up and closer to the merry-go-round. Alternately, in post processing, you can move the bird and plant higher up and then crop to make a vertically oriented image.

Hi Ken

I have cropped the picture.

[Jeffbridge]

That is beautiful! Excellent Shot!!!

[leslie1283]

Location: Singapore
Date/Time: 20 March 2014, 7:14am-7:22am
Facing: East

Since 9 March 2014, it is a daily routine in the morning for people around Asia-Pacific region searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Fight MH370.

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[Downrigger]

Beautiful... both. To have seen, then caught this is an achievement. I like the initial version better. One can argue that the bird is not the subject, rather the subject is the juxtapostion of the bird with the setting. This bird needs that carousel to be marvelous. So... maybe more carousel than in the second.

It is a common conundrum it seems to me: managing the trade-off between the space given the subject and the space given to the context providing the story that makes the subject special.

I don't know even the framework for this problem... for example, how much person and how much dunes to show a small person walking on big dunes? Perhaps it is best that the photographer should strive to get the image to correspond to the concept held in the mind's eye at the moment the image ensnared the imagination and impulse to capture, and leave the rest as a matter of the individual idiosyncrasies of artistic and viewing preferences that are better left unanalyzed.

[Downrigger]

As I was posting on the birds, these lovely airplanes went up. Striking. Same issue, too: Plane as subject but sun/sky as context and story. And again, I like the first, best - the plane is just as good, and not competing as much with the sun for status as subject, and the story is better.

[IzzieK]

Hi Isabel,
Done

Thanks, Leslie...

The shots you made...the first one I like very much...you were quick to get that despite the fickleness of the situation. About the airplanes, the first one is more like it. It has more of a story to it than the second one. My mind cannot comprehend which one to look at in the second shot because both seems to be the prominent subject.

[Wavelength]

What a quality substance!!! The edit of the first enhanced the appeal of the image; the second combination is also another story teller

[bnnrcn]

Hi Leslie ,you cropped the bird photo and it works fine as another image but your original one is the best for me.Your airplane shot is very beautiful too and I like the original one again Btw there are some dust spots in the airplane shot .

[Ken Curtis]

Leslie, the crop is as good as you can do with what you had. It looks much better to me.