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Uncle Pete:
Duck Thread SS forum March 2010 (until it's gone, or maybe they will leave it and lock access?)

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/45949-all-rejected-due-to-sharpneness/

On 3/25/2010 at 2:12 PM, spopho said:
These look pretty sharp to me. Ducks fly at fifty mph, so SS doesn't have many good shots of these birds in flight. I realize there is noise, but that isn't the issue with these shots. No sharpening was applied.

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Member "Posted March 25, 2010
Focus is definatley OOF and yes there is noise and there are some people here who stop Jet Aircraft in their tracks and they are razor sharp."

OP "Look, Troll. Jets are 100 times easier to shoot than ducks. Absolutely, no comparison. I've done both. For one thing, you are a half a mile from the jet, and it is way more predictable than a duck. A fairer comparison would be trying to pan a fighter taking off from a flight deck 20 feet away. Also, your eyesight blows. Thanks for your reply."

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Member 2 "Posted March 25, 2010
Sorry, after your last comment I decided you are not looking for help, just a fight. I withdraw my critique."

OP "Take your brand of help somewhere else."

Member 3
"These are Mallards. Common as muck.
There is no excuse to not photograph a mallard perfectly, else let the little old ladies or kids do it with ther cellphones.
Capture one, put it in the studio, set up five strobes, and then you might have a mallard photo that can compete.
These are not sharp, they are full of noise and not worth a dispute."

 OP "Look, Moron. These are in the wild and in flight. They are far from common."

OP (after more name calling)

"I only bite those that want it. I love photographing ducks and they sell. There really aren't a lot of good pics of ducks in flight. The pics I posted here are consistent in quality with the ones in my port. In some cases they are better. I didn't apply noise reduction, either, because I would rather leave that up to the buyer. These obviouly weren't taken in the studio, nor could they have been, so noise is always going to be an issue (these are action shots). I thought in my original post I told the noise trolls to remove that issue from there little brains."

The OP is gone, never returned, but the topic was turned into a joke that went on for 15 pages of laughs. And I mean fun about rejections, duck photos, speed, blur, and not just about the OP.

ps, this shot of mine, probably posed, easy to track, and much slower than a 50MPH duck?  ::)

thijsdegraaf:
Yes Nice!!
Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), male Feral Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos forma domestica)
In the netherlands in the past, the male mallards had a shiny green neck and head. But because the females, males also liked the domestic ducks, you now see hybrids like these mallards

My ducks don't sell, but I photographed a few especially for the topic.  :)

Caymia:
Ahh, the duck thread!
I expect it will disappear in a few days so here's my duck contribution to the new thread  ;D

Uncle Pete:
Some referred to it as the fowl thread too? Or was that a foul thread?

This is a duck?

Microstockphoto:
that place was a cess pit, everyone was rude under the guise of 'just honest critique', it was not, it was a place full of bigheads seeing it as an oportunity to completely trash anyone with a subpar photo. the place was not to help people but to put people down, all under the leadership of rinder,, who is a bang average photographer himself, and just manages to use one filter setting on photoshop for every portrait image he ever took. and barry blackburn couldnt take a proper photo himself but thought he was the authority on giving critique, yet all he could write was OOF.  and i could go on and on. might as well post the thread where 'seasoned' photographers were bikkering over the colour of the sky. one said cyan the other said blue and it caused ww3. so many 'classic' threads, but in reality it was all just blown up egos thinking they were better than everyone else. who was that guy from UK, couldnt figure out where he ended and rinder started, so far he was up rinders anus. so many vile persons on that forum. i think the only level headed person on there was that ex cop, shot some nice food stuff, but then turns out he conspired with rinder about leaving the forum only to come back again, leave again and then got banned or something, the drama queens. hahaha, what a soap opera

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