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Challenge: Five (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Animals
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Home
Date: May 5, 2005
Aperture: 9
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 5, 2005

 I have been keeping an eye on the bluebird birdhouse in the back of my yard and noticing that there has been alot of activity lately. There is a side door on the birdhouse that can be raised for cleaning and viewing. I was up early this morning and saw the "5" challenge. When I lifted the side door on the birdhouse and saw the 4 eggs and 1 baby I knew I had my subject. The picture was taken with my Canon 1:2.8 100mm macro lens on a tripod from about 2 feet away. Iso 800, 1/25 sec at 9.0 aperature. just a little cropping, slight increase in contrast and unsharp mask.

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 182
Avg (all users): 6.1641
Avg (commenters): 6.6364
Avg (participants): 5.9158
Avg (non-participants): 6.4000
Views since voting: 1341
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 195
Comments: 18
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 05/15/2005 07:34:35 PM
This is precious, what an excellent capture!
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 05/13/2005 08:56:49 PM
Inede: What a tender capture! Congratulations on your top 20 finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/13/2005 07:23:07 PM
This is actually a very competant photo. Technically this is virtually perfect. Subject doesn't move me though. If you can apply your obvious mastery of the technology to a more appealing subject, you can significantly raise the scores I'd give.
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 05/13/2005 05:02:37 PM
This is, quite frankly, an amazing picture. Techincally, compositionally, and otherwise.
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 05/12/2005 08:46:37 PM
wow- how exciting to capture this shot. Beautiful!
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 05/12/2005 08:32:41 PM
WOW Great capture! :) 8
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 05/12/2005 05:22:12 PM
What's that?
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 05/12/2005 09:31:42 AM
Wonderful nature shot. My girls will love to look at this one! Way to go! 10
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 05/10/2005 03:17:00 PM
Hmmm - never seen anything like that - what is it? Gummy Bird? :)

Very good shot. Good lighting and DOF.
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 05/10/2005 07:05:13 AM
How wonderfull...the blue of the egg is just perfect
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 05/10/2005 04:32:09 AM
Awesome photo! Most delightful presentation of "Five" to me.
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 05/09/2005 11:10:03 PM
I love this photo.
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 05/09/2005 03:54:36 AM
i would have preferred everything in focus. beautiful moment :)
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 05/07/2005 07:34:17 PM
A nice capture well done
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 05/07/2005 11:09:12 AM
there's a lot of potential drama here, that unfortunately i feel was missed by the image. a shift in lighting or a shallower dof, throwing more of the background into a greater blur would have been very effective.
 05/07/2005 04:46:41 AM
Oh my goodness!!! This is wonderful!!!

I came back to say this is my favorite in the challgenge. I bumping it up to a 10. BOL :)
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 05/06/2005 09:57:52 PM
so tiny! Did it's mom come back afterwards?
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 05/06/2005 09:20:47 PM
Amazing opportunity. I like the lighting and the DOF - spot on for seeing what is most important in this shot.
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