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Challenge: Progress (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon
Location: Along the Rock River
Date: Jul 9, 2006
Aperture: F/6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jul 11, 2006

 Shot on the Mighty Rock River.

Spent awhile on this one in photoshop, converted from raw, resized, reduced noise sharpened

spent a long time tinkering with the color, highlights and shadows, contrast and brightness trying to make the baby ducks stand out a little bit. Sharpened again and framed. Crossed fingers and uploaded.



Post Challenge: Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo, Most of you were right, I got a bit carried away with the editing and by the time I had realized it I had run out of time to try and redo it. The Ducks are very real, the mother duck was a very light color which is why I took the photo in the first place. She was also very wet as they had just came out of the water a minute or two before I snapped this shot. It was a bit out of focus so I tried to clean it up with noise reduction and sharpinging but did a bit too much. I will be posting a new version in my portfolio in the near future. again thanks for the comments.

Statistics
Place: 91 out of 152
Avg (all users): 5.1772
Avg (commenters): 5.0833
Avg (participants): 5.1000
Avg (non-participants): 5.2010
Views since voting: 687
Views during voting: 365
Votes: 254
Comments: 13
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/18/2006 07:39:49 PM
Are these real? If so maybe too much smoothing, they look plastic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 06:20:48 PM
Cute!
 07/18/2006 12:32:01 PM
Ducks progression, nice idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 12:14:19 PM
Focus is a bit off. Ducks seem a bit soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 07:08:46 AM
Cute, grainy and slightly off focus but it's cute.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 07:05:05 AM
There is something that I can´t put my finger on regarding this photo that throws me way off, did you use a tool like shadow/highlights and took it to the extreme? Anyway, I must say whatever it is, wether the lighting was just very wierd that day where you were or if it was due to some PP tweaking this just looks wierd to me and I don´t really care for the outcome. 4 from me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2006 04:31:44 PM
I think the camera is focusing on the rocks.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2006 01:35:37 PM
Maybe it's just my eyes but it looks the bright areas have been over-sharpened while the midtones remained under-sharpened or soft. It certainly represents the theme though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/14/2006 08:02:00 PM
Heh! Cute. But they look very fake/plasticy. I suspect a post-processing noise reduction technique may have caused this look.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/14/2006 01:44:19 PM
Amusing and on topic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2006 06:31:51 AM
This is a nice shot but it almost looks like you focused on the rock and not the birds?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/11/2006 09:34:36 PM
I really like the title, but something makes the ducks look a bit fake.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/11/2006 09:07:21 PM
The mother duck looks a little like plastic. Too much NI maybe?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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