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Parents Never Rest
Parents Never Rest
KaDi


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Challenge: Birds (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: SUNY Binghamton Nature Preserve
Date: Jun 11, 2005
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 12, 2005

 Busy wrens with a nest of babies. Put it up. Took it down. Here it is again, differently cropped and not so much processing.

Crop, levels, hue/sat on yellow with shift toward orange, select background and work with dust and speckles, inverse and work bird and trunk with sharpening, resize, save for web, no additional sharpening. Oh yeah, burned some on the motion bird (highlights and midtones) and cloned out some annoying vestiges on inversion/sharpening. Also reduced two white circular flares with cloning at <100%

I guess I really want comments on this one. It could be a four. It could be a 6. But it definitely shouldn't be just a 5. (Sigh.....)

Statistics
Place: 215 out of 289
Avg (all users): 5.0260
Avg (commenters): 5.1818
Avg (participants): 4.8052
Avg (non-participants): 5.3217
Views since voting: 902
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 269
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/17/2005 04:12:57 PM
Ok this has the makings but the oof bird adds nothing at all to this image crop it out and the resulting shot is much stronger .5
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 06/15/2005 01:32:57 PM
Nice moment
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 06/15/2005 06:09:24 AM
I think you captured a neat moment, but I don't know what the blur is
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 06/14/2005 05:41:59 AM
A tad dark and requiring a bit more contrast. Love the action feel of this shot with one of the parents flying off. Any idea what species of Wren is portrayed?
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 06/14/2005 04:20:15 AM
This would have been perfect without the branch in the background!
Very nice though. Well done!
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 06/14/2005 01:12:59 AM
Pretty cool, like the motion blur and composition, this photo works.
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 06/13/2005 12:17:07 PM
this shot would have been great with faster shutter, like 1/2000 sec, composition and lighting are good, but the motion blurred bird does severe damage to the image.
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 06/13/2005 09:53:14 AM
Like the blurred motion of the wings on the one bird in flight. Nice colors. Excellent dof used in this capture.
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 06/13/2005 06:42:15 AM
Could use a bit of focus and contrast. It's so hard to capture a bird on the wing!
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 06/13/2005 03:40:23 AM
nice house wrens.
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 06/13/2005 01:11:13 AM
Nice capture ... well done and good luck
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