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Red-belly
Red-belly
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Birds (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Home, OH
Date: Jun 12, 2005
Aperture: f 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 12, 2005

 This Red-belly is around our feeders all the time. Kind of the neighborhood bully. He once took some feathers out of a wren trying to share his feeder. I picked this shot of him not only because of its clarity but also because the "pose" showed a lot of body details. The only main feature missing is the deep orange of the center of his belly. Why he's named red and not orange belly I don't know. But he is a dashing fella none-the-less.


In Photoshop:
Cropped for effect;
adjusted levels;
saturated certain areas of bird and feeder;
sharpened around the eye;
sized for the web;
unsharpend mask by 85%, radius .6, treshold 9
sized again.


Statistics
Place: 143 out of 289
Avg (all users): 5.5114
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3503
Avg (non-participants): 5.7477
Views since voting: 899
Views during voting: 361
Votes: 264
Comments: 12
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 08/12/2005 10:37:05 PM
What a perky looking fellow, like your description of the photo as well..
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/19/2005 10:18:49 AM
nice picture, but isn't it more like a red head lol
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/18/2005 10:35:24 AM
Cute little fellow.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/17/2005 06:34:37 PM
It appears not quite sharp, and as it is Natural history challenge sharpness is critical so I have not rated it as high as others 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/16/2005 07:52:48 PM
colours are good ,nice work
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/16/2005 10:27:32 AM
VERY NICE SHOT
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/14/2005 06:26:35 AM
nice capture. beak is fractionally soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/14/2005 06:07:53 AM
I like the colours.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/13/2005 11:53:10 AM
Nice bird, but a wee bit soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/13/2005 09:43:14 AM
lovely detail....well seen
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/13/2005 08:03:23 AM
I would have cropped out the feeder ad concentrated on him. Good focus on his head!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/13/2005 12:33:11 AM
Very colourful and good DoF, wth a balanced composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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