Comments on: [Photos] Timing Is Everything: Animal Photography

By: Gerrie Kriel

Gerrie Kriel — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:17:00 +0000

Good Work Man!! I Like! nuf sed :)

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:54:00 +0000

the only shots that were taken off were the ones without photographer credits. If there were names associated with them they would still be on the post. I appreciate your concern …

By: mwphotografica

mwphotografica — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Its not that I don’t like them, some of them are cute, my kids loved them but the point is many of them a clearly fake and this is not what this site is known for. Given your background as a PJ you are well aware of the need to authenticate images/sources etc. The opening header is misleading “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” maybe it should read “Luck is what happens when you play in Photoshop for 1/2 hr!”. From the content of images on your website you are clearly an accomplished photographer and are “better” than these sorts of droll images – a bird taking a dump on a tree stump – come on! Cute is not creative or clever nor informative.

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:25:00 +0000

well, actually those buttons say a lot. They say “a ton of people like this”. But it’s cool that you dont like it, no problem. Not everyone will like everything.

By: mwphotografica

mwphotografica — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:17:00 +0000

Twitter & FB likes are hardly the measure of authenticity! FStoppers is about interesting, creative, exciting photography, gear, stories etc not some droll cheesy fake photos. A simple “yeah I stuffed up, I didn’t check the authenticity of the images” and removal of a poor post would go a looooong way to restoring a modicum of credibility.

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:10:00 +0000

tell that to the tweet and FB like buttons ;)

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:50:00 +0000

The first image in this series wasn’t a result of perfect timing. I happened to read the shooter’s explanation of it, and he states that he happened across this scene, and that he watched them locked in that pose for over two hours.

Also, this kind of thing is getting more and more common on FStoppers, and it doesn’t belong. These “AMAZING EXMAPLES OF STUFF I GOT FROM FLICKR” posts are lame as hell, and as I’ve said before, I come to Fstoppers to be either entertained or educated. This provides neither.

It wouldn’t be so bad if you actually researched any of these shots or scrutinised them slightly before you throw them up.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Some nice compositing…

By: mwphotografica

mwphotografica — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Hi Cory, you seem to have taken down SOME of the shopped images, what about the two images with the plane contrails in them.

The first one with the eagle has two such well defined contrails that if they were genuine the plane would appear in the image somewhere right about where the eagles tail feathers are. To leave such a big contrail it would be clearly visible beyond the edges of the eagle. Photoshopped. The second image of the stork (?) with the plane and contrail above is also clearly shopped. The perspective on the plane is inconsistent with the perspective on the bird. The angle of the plane’s wings are inconsistent with vanishing point perspective and should be angled the other way. Curiously, if you look at the image upside down the plane will now take on correct perspective and look ‘natural’. Photoshopped.

I am not normally a internet troll that goes hating on posts but this is not what fStoppers is famous for. Come on Cory, Lee, Patrick and the team, visitors to the site don’t want to see cute (bad) photoshopping of cheesy animals. Otherwise love the site and visit daily.

By: Suresh GV

Suresh GV — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Have to agree that most of these are merges of different pictures. In the picture of the bird and the rat, the rat seems to be jumping into the birds mouth. And birds never sit that tightly close together as they will not be able to spread their wing when the fly away or land. One would think fstoppers would be able to spot the fakes. But still interesting…