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Peacock Portrait
Peacock Portrait
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2007-06 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Quantaray AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD Tele-Macro for Pentax
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Date: Jun 15, 2007
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/90sec
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2007

 This was originally for Negative Space, however I entered the other challenge. I love Peacocks though so here he is.

I downloaded from camera, cropped, enhanced brightness, color.

Statistics
Place: 407 out of 556
Avg (all users): 5.2578
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 5.2427
Avg (non-participants): 5.3200
Views since voting: 756
Views during voting: 176
Votes: 128
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 05/07/2010 08:15:25 PM
Solid color bird feathers are always difficult to capture, because the one color tends to over saturate, and they are usually so much brighter than anything else in the BG. The bird in this is very nice, the BG, not so exciting. Perhaps a wider aperture to throw the BG more out of focus would have worked to improve the overall score. The peacocks are a beautiful bird, with their glowing feathers.
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 07/08/2007 06:20:45 AM
I love this, I can't believe it didn't score better! The colors, the colors the composition it all works well here I think. Great shot!
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 07/08/2007 03:31:45 AM
Well I think it is a gorgeous photo and I love the blue! It looks in focus to me and I love that the bird is staring into the neg space. Pretty photo!
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 07/07/2007 11:14:09 PM
I very much like this version of a peacock - everyone always takes pics of their showy tails, and this focuses on their equally gorgeous head plummage.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2007 08:39:48 AM
The background is a bit dull and 'unhappening'
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 07/05/2007 07:17:06 AM
A little out of focus.
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 06/30/2007 09:02:06 PM
Nice focus on the peacock. The negative space would be more effective if the DOF had been just a weeeee bit shallower, though, so that the texture of the wall wasn't distracting.
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