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Challenge: Fill the Frame III (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: St Louis Mo
Date: Aug 23, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2007

 Bald Eagle at the World Bird Santuary. She is a female and the biggest one they have. No control of the lighting but I actually liked how it turned out w/ one half of her face lit and the other side in shadows. She is actually panting b/c it was so damn hot that day. I have other close ups of some other Raptors but I'm going w/ this one as I have a thing for Bald Eagles. I think this should be in the six range but the dark side of her face could make people vote it lower, guess we will see!

Raw
Crop
Curves layer
Levels Laves
Layer to lighten the left eye w/ curves
Hue/Satuartion layer
Layer for Noise reduction
Layer for USM for contrast
Layer for burning some of the highlights on her feathers
Layer edge sharpening
Resize
Sharpen w/ Smart sharpen
save for web

Sweet, Top Ten! I know the eyes where OOF but I had to go for the happy medium and focus between the eyes and her beak, plus I had a low apature b/c of low lighting. Thanks for the comments and the votes and she is the same Bald Eagle that was my highest score from a couple months ago, she truly is an amazing animal.

Statistics
Place: 8 out of 285
Avg (all users): 6.5621
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 6.4211
Avg (non-participants): 6.7432
Views since voting: 2577
Views during voting: 294
Votes: 169
Comments: 23
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 11/18/2007 08:47:06 AM
Thats a serious beak. Excellent.
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 09/04/2007 10:42:10 AM
From your comments: "I know the eyes where OOF but I had to go for the happy medium and focus between the eyes and her beak..."
I think this works so well preciseley because her eyes are in soft focus... it's like she's coming in to attack you in which case your focus would be on the beak and the eyes would fall into the background.
The image is from the perspective of the victim - if you'd focused on the eyes and let the beak blurr it would suggest more the 'self perspective' of the attacker (ie it would be concentrating on the victim through its eyes. And now I'm starting to ramble incoherently again - sorry :)
BTW did i mention this is a stunner. I hate to say it deserved a ribbon 'cos that's a bit disrespectful of the images that did... but it deserved a ribbon!

Message edited by author 2007-09-04 14:44:35.
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 09/03/2007 05:30:47 AM
Had this as top 3. A great, intense, capture ... congrats on your new PB
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 09/03/2007 04:43:39 AM
Should have finished higher! Great job....
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 09/02/2007 10:11:42 PM
Hey man WTG good job on 9th. This was an outstanding shot.
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 09/02/2007 08:56:15 PM
Great to see this in the top 10 Trevor, congratulations
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 09/02/2007 08:07:01 PM
I can't belive that this image didn't ribbon. Shame!!!
Fantastic image on every level.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/02/2007 04:27:21 PM
This is awesome. I really with the eyes were in focus.
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 09/02/2007 07:41:48 AM
Lovely, 9.
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 09/01/2007 11:29:30 AM
Nice colors, wish it showed a bit more texture.
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 08/31/2007 06:27:46 PM
Wicked stare...nice capture.
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 08/31/2007 04:03:53 PM
awesome
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 08/31/2007 12:01:49 PM
good one
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 08/30/2007 07:30:01 PM
Wow! Gave me chiils.
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 08/30/2007 02:15:30 AM
Good crop. Focus could be better though.
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 08/28/2007 08:35:09 PM
love the shadow on one side
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 08/28/2007 06:37:12 PM
Since all my photo equipment was stolen and I am camera-less, I will spend time now voting...
Interest - 2
Theme Interp - 3
Technical Merit - 3
Personal Bias - 2
TOTAL - 10
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 08/27/2007 03:35:20 PM
excellent close up - love the partially open beak - i just wish the eyes were tack sharp - those birds are awesome
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 08/27/2007 10:08:26 AM
I think this would be more powerful if the focus was sharp on the eyes. I love hte shot thuogh, and the crop...
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 08/27/2007 08:24:20 AM
In wildlife photos, the eyes have to be in focus.
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 08/27/2007 07:17:54 AM
Good capture and excellent title!
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 08/27/2007 03:11:46 AM
Brilliant image, meets the challenge perfectly, is interesting and stunningly well executed, looks like a potential ribbon winner, songratulations
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 08/26/2007 09:48:18 PM
WOW .. fantastic photograph and crop ..
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