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4 million people, 60 million sheep
4 million people, 60 million sheep
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Postcard II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Canon
Location: Mahurangi West, New Zealand
Date: Nov 19, 2006
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1600 second
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Nov 18, 2006

 The weather didn't want to help me with this challenge. Plan "b" was to try some humour with this one. Given the title you'd expect it would be easy to find a sheep but when you go looking for one they are all of a sudden hard to find! The ones I could find has been shorn recently so they looked manky. I found some and managed to get this guy to look at me so now he's famous. I wanted a woolier and cleaner sheep but you've gotta take what you can get. The others in the house did find it amusing when I said I was going out to find an "attractive sheep" :)

Editing Steps:
Convert from RAW at different exposures
HDR and tone map
Neat Image
Rotate
Crop
Lighten via duplicate layer in screen mode
Hue/Sat on background
Increase contrast
Curves
Add text
Resize
Add border
USM
Save for web

Post Challenge:
To answer some of the commenters, no the statistic isn't quite true. A few years back (in the late 80's or early 90's) it was but the sheep population in NZ has been dropping so "4 million people, 40 million sheep" would be more accurate.

Statistics
Place: 62 out of 266
Avg (all users): 6.2465
Avg (commenters): 7.2778
Avg (participants): 6.0374
Avg (non-participants): 6.4537
Views since voting: 885
Views during voting: 347
Votes: 215
Comments: 23
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 11/27/2006 01:16:53 PM
Yay for "Plan B"! Mine also for the same reason (bloody auckland weather) :) Great idea Gerry and congrats on the awesome score.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/26/2006 01:39:03 PM
Good idea, maybe the text needs more work.
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 11/25/2006 03:53:45 AM
Cute!! Well done - I like the sheep looking at the camera.
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 11/24/2006 04:14:05 AM
like the focus on the sheep, you can almost feel its wool, good luck
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 11/23/2006 10:01:41 PM
Staring rather sheepishly, eh? :}
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 11/22/2006 06:36:23 PM
One of my favorites of this challenge. Nicely done!
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 11/22/2006 09:21:37 AM
I love this. My favorite so far.
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 11/22/2006 08:30:44 AM
mmm...lots of lamb...yummy!
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 11/21/2006 06:39:29 PM
gotta be from NZ makes it worth 6 at least
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 11/21/2006 06:23:37 PM
All those sweaters!
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 11/21/2006 02:20:25 PM
I hope for your sake that the rest of the world understands the importance of sheep to us Kiwi's... a great shot
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 11/21/2006 12:44:59 PM
That's a whole lotta sheep! Clever idea putting a quick, fun fact on the front of the card. And what a cute little sheep! :)
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 11/21/2006 10:26:56 AM
Well composed, and good use of the space to the top of the frame. I could imagine this selling well with the tourists.
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 11/21/2006 09:44:09 AM
Is that really true? Astonishing fun fact.
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 11/21/2006 07:41:22 AM
hehe, good tittle
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 11/21/2006 04:23:13 AM
Cute message. Strong photo, and obviously a good choice for your postcard theme. :D Good luck in the challenge.
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 11/20/2006 01:10:28 PM
the photograph is good and the info on the people and the sheep very helpfull. as my personal opinion I would prefer a landscape because for me is a land where I can't go every day :)
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 11/20/2006 10:18:43 AM
LOL made me laugh. Very cute, creative and fun shot. Love this.
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 11/20/2006 04:09:37 AM
LOL CUTE - I can see this at a tourist stand!!
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 11/20/2006 12:27:30 AM
Cute sheep
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 11/19/2006 10:54:22 PM
hahah funny
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 11/19/2006 10:28:45 PM
Hello from Australia neighbour! nice dof and colour
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 11/19/2006 09:50:37 PM
In my alternate universe I'm a hand spinner. I would definitely buy this card. Love the color and bokeh.
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