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3 Robins Having Worms On Ice
3 Robins Having Worms On Ice
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Challenge: Wildlife III (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Kodak P880
Location: Dayton, TN
Date: Jan 18, 2007
Aperture: 1:4.0
ISO: Integrated
Shutter: 1/40s
Galleries: Animals, Textures
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2007

I did a square crop to see how it looked and my birdies popped right out of that picture! It was raining and freezing the day this was taken and I was lucky to get one at all because my dogs kept running them off! I did a crop, adjusted levels, applied highlights/lowlights, did a colour overlay on the robins (just to brighten the red breast), and did some dodge and burn to make them easier to see. Used blur tool and sharpen tool selectively on grass and robins. Resized for challenge. Also, I don't know if it matters much, but I had a UV filter on the front of my camera.

Statistics
Place: 213 out of 218
Avg (all users): 4.1157
Avg (commenters): 4.0526
Avg (participants): 4.0917
Avg (non-participants): 4.1353
Views since voting: 971
Views during voting: 369
Votes: 242
Comments: 20
Favorites: 0


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02/05/2007 06:07:15 AM
You did a good job Jojo! It's hard to get those little critters to stay still. You can't tell them to say cheeeeeese. You done a good job! You got 3 of them!!!!! I tried to catch some picts of birdies too. But mine didn't cooperate, so I submitted no picture. You at least got a picture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2007 03:24:41 PM
The composition doesn't work well, IMHO. There's too much uninteresting space in between the birds. Perhaps focusing on just the single robin in the foreground or cropping. Nice colors, though.
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01/28/2007 01:20:36 PM
Too small subject for the picture.
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01/27/2007 06:39:34 PM
great detail this challenge or Minimalism II
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01/27/2007 02:44:51 AM
The American robin is so very different to the European variety!
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01/26/2007 10:13:22 PM
It's just a messy image without a lot of detail to me...sorry :-(

Focus is not quite there
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01/26/2007 07:55:39 PM
This is almost "Where's Waldo" you have to hunt for the birds. There is no main focal point to the picture.
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01/26/2007 10:20:40 AM
The two in the background get lost in the distance. Maybe it would have been better to concentrate on the one in the foreground hand have that more prominent. Just a thought.
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01/24/2007 11:20:48 PM
interesting concept, but hard on the eye.
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01/24/2007 05:19:37 AM
I had to hunt for the other 2 birds in this picture ... none of them really stand out or seem to be the main subject ...
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01/23/2007 08:08:24 PM
The birds are well-camouflaged; the ice is not evident.
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01/23/2007 04:31:09 PM
Not much emphasis on what the theme is
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01/23/2007 02:54:23 AM
on ne voit pas grand chose, c'est dommage
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01/22/2007 10:46:17 PM
huh?
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01/22/2007 03:30:17 PM
Too far from the birds. I would have rated this higher if you had just captured a closer shot of the Robin in the foreground.
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01/22/2007 08:36:18 AM
I think you were a bit heavy with the dodge tool around the two top birds. I also might have cropped some off from the top and right side. With all the open space in this shot, this would help the viewer spot the birds faster.
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01/22/2007 07:02:48 AM
very spread out hard to find the robins
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01/22/2007 05:56:26 AM
too far away
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01/21/2007 09:08:55 PM
I see the robins but I have to look for them. Without the title I probably wouldn't have found them either.
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01/21/2007 08:44:22 PM
Too far away
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