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Leaving the party
Leaving the party
LalliSig


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Challenge: Five (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Downtown Reykjavik
Date: May 6, 2005
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Urban, Animals
Date Uploaded: May 6, 2005

 Taken at 51mm according to the .exif. Used a polarizer to darken the sky. Cropped slightly off the right side. Used curves and unsharp mask to increase the contrast and selective and replace colour to slightly darken the blue colour in the photo. Burned the clouds in the far left of the photo to regain some of the details in them and lastly in the pole that is second from the left the line that holds up the flag was dangling loose so I removed it with a healing brush.

Anyway, this is taken at Tjornin in front of the city hall. I had to wait about 30 minutes for the seagulls to align themselves on top of each flagpole but when that finally happened it turned out to be a pretty boring photograph in my opinion so I waited another 5 minutes till one of the seagulls flew off and this is the result. Anyway, I know this is hardly ribbon material but after spending that much time getting one shot I figured what the hell, the worst thing that will happen is that my average will go down a little bit.

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 182
Avg (all users): 6.7424
Avg (commenters): 7.7500
Avg (participants): 6.5051
Avg (non-participants): 6.9798
Views since voting: 3909
Views during voting: 309
Votes: 198
Comments: 41
Favorites: 6 (view)

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 06/02/2005 08:37:56 AM
Hard to add any more that hasn't been said already.
Amazing.
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 05/14/2005 06:44:53 AM
This has a surreal feeling to it, very cool.

Congrats on your 5th!
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 05/14/2005 06:37:46 AM
Wow -- this is an amazing capture. Your patience truly paid off.
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 05/13/2005 11:53:28 PM
guess your average didn't quite "go down a little bit", eh? truly wonderful picture - great patience paid off here.
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 05/13/2005 09:03:07 PM
Til hamingju Lárus!
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 05/13/2005 08:47:05 PM
Congratulations on your 5th finish. This is quite a remarhable capture with great interest because of the 4 perching and the 5th in flight. Wew!
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 05/13/2005 08:11:28 PM
excellent observation, expertly captured! congrats on your top 5!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/13/2005 07:32:08 PM
neat idea.
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 05/13/2005 07:17:42 PM
Nice find - great composition
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 05/13/2005 12:45:50 PM
cool shot....9
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 05/13/2005 11:36:43 AM
Ok, this is my undoutedly my favorite in the challenge so far. 10
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 05/13/2005 08:30:12 AM
nice execution of a reoccuring theme
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 05/13/2005 07:13:35 AM
good timing.
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 05/13/2005 07:11:35 AM
Great capture!
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 05/13/2005 04:45:16 AM
You trained those seagulls very well.
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 05/12/2005 09:01:01 AM
How long did you have to wait to get this or were you just lucky? Ggood shot.
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 05/10/2005 01:34:24 PM
A splendid capture! I wonder if you ever got one with all 5 birds on the posts? Sky is perfect and colors and focus are great as well.
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 05/08/2005 10:39:39 PM
Good idea - nicely executed
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 05/08/2005 07:41:34 PM
wow! how did you get lucky enough to capture this???
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 05/08/2005 01:01:42 PM
One of my favourite subjects at the moment is flight and this is great. Admitedly not the most awe-inspiring of birds but the cripsness of the the shot and the way you have got the colour of the sky is amazing. Kinda reminds me for some reason of something of a pixar animation. Good luck its one of my faves so far :0)
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 05/08/2005 12:08:37 PM
wow...this is neat
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 05/08/2005 07:21:54 AM
One of my top rated pictures of the challenge. Great subject and background.
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 05/08/2005 03:23:33 AM
Lucky chatch! Great take on the challenge. Bumping up!
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 05/07/2005 08:29:51 PM
Cool photo. Looks like they are all cloned or cropped in. If so it would be excellent if you could capture it for real, and if not still cool photo. I have a photo of a bird from florida like this that I cloned all over the place.
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 05/07/2005 08:26:16 PM
Fantastic timing! I know how hard it is to get these birds to cooperate! Really, they don't listen or pay attention to how you want them to pose, but you managed to nail this one. :-)
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 05/07/2005 07:18:52 PM
Nice capture
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 05/07/2005 06:03:53 PM
Love this! Well done and seen.
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 05/07/2005 02:46:07 PM
gave you a 10. Can't tell you why, but I know that found shots blow away posed ones any day. And this one is just so...found. And its perfect for this challenge. Can't tell you how to make it better - don't think it can be. Good luck!
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 05/07/2005 09:15:00 AM
its amazing the things you catch for a photo, great job.
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 05/07/2005 07:27:14 AM
nicely done, love how rich blue the sky is.
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 05/07/2005 06:18:32 AM
Wonderful find for this challenge. The blue is beautiful 8.
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 05/07/2005 01:36:33 AM
Right Place, Right Time, Right On....9
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 05/07/2005 12:31:00 AM
a great action shot well worth the effort 9
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 05/07/2005 12:24:47 AM
great comp and colours
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 05/07/2005 12:19:15 AM
great 8
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 05/06/2005 09:59:49 PM
Great a capture, guess number 5 got tired of posing. Beautiful sky, nice focus 8
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 05/06/2005 09:58:47 PM
This is so fine in many ways. I wish it were rendered in such a way as to attain a little-better separation of elements from sky.
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 05/06/2005 09:38:16 PM
This is nice. It would have been good if all the birds were sitting on the poles, but it's even better with one flying.
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 05/06/2005 09:18:07 PM
Love it! A slightly more diagonal angle would make this less static, but hey, must have been hard enough to make those gulls pose like that in the first place. 8
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 05/06/2005 08:22:10 PM
Very Nice. I like this a lot. Looks kind of fake though. - 7
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 05/06/2005 08:16:19 PM
this cracks me up and is an incredible shot. great color, great composition.
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