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Challenge: Birds (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5100
Location: Farmington New Mexico
Date: Jun 12, 2005
Aperture: f 3.1
ISO: 1/640 sec
Shutter: 64
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 12, 2005

Taken in Farmington New Mexico on 6-12-05.

Post Processing:
Automatic Saturation Enhancement
Bias - More colorful strength - normal
Automatic Contrast Enhancement
Bias - Darker Strength - normal Apperance - natural
Edge Preserve Smoothing - 3
DCNR - s=15 m=50 l=70 Correction - 70 Sharpen = 0

Cropped and saved file.

Statistics
Place: 271 out of 289
Avg (all users): 4.2917
Avg (commenters): 3.8000
Avg (participants): 4.1720
Avg (non-participants): 4.4673
Views since voting: 695
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 264
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/19/2005 02:50:25 PM
great close up, these birds are very small and very fast, you've done a great job of capturing such a clear shot 9
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06/18/2005 04:48:15 PM
I love those birds - so cute when they flitter around! I really like the composition of this image. Think you cropped well. What's holding this back from being great is the soft focus. Not sure if thats the camera or oversaturation. The DOF and POV work well for me also. Back to the softness - not sure how to improve on this particular image. Maybe a tripod and a prayer or a higher ISO. The prayer is for waiting for a bird to appear within your frame. One of the draw backs of shooting anything moving in lower light. Good luck in the challenge!
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06/18/2005 01:19:25 AM
too soft focused
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06/16/2005 04:09:30 PM
Not very clear. Focus?
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06/16/2005 12:15:19 PM
Alittle fuzzy, but good overall.
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06/16/2005 08:07:43 AM
Nice framing and pose. Bird focus appears off
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06/15/2005 12:58:31 PM
seems alittle blurry to me
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06/13/2005 03:00:12 PM
Good straight horizon. This image looks a little soft to me, which eliminates some of the detail that would make this bird really pop! Lighting looks pretty good, maybe a little harsh at the tail end of the bird, but not much you can do about the sun ;-) Good composition. Playing with the Levels might help make this shot pop a little more as well. Nice colors!
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06/13/2005 10:04:30 AM
would be even better if a bit sharper....but well seen
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06/13/2005 09:40:51 AM
I would probably have given this a pretty good score if the image quality hadn´t been so bad as in this shot. The image desperatly needs more contrast and sharpness, there is little detail and the purple fringing is the last nail in the coffin. Looks like you cropped it severely, am I right? Anyway, composition is good so there is at least that.
06/13/2005 08:27:16 AM
out of focus, drab colors
06/13/2005 07:23:32 AM
Would be great if it were a little crisper. Light is a tad too harsh.
06/13/2005 05:51:36 AM
Looks a bit soft, needs stronger focus.
06/12/2005 08:42:27 PM
focus is a bit soft.
06/12/2005 08:14:44 PM
color seems a bit off to me


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