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Challenge: The Eyes Have It! (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: San Diego Zoo
Date: Feb 2, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1600
Galleries: Animals, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2008
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Exposure bias of -2.0 to reduce blown out highlights. Adjusted levels and desaturated in raw; cropped, resized, sharpened, and added border.
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Black marsh eclogue
Sam Hamill (1943- )
Although it is midsummer, the great blue heron
holds darkest winter in his hunched shoulders,
those blue-turning-gray clouds
rising over him like a storm from the Pacific.
He stands in the black marsh
more monument than bird, a wizened prophet
returned from a vanished mythology.
He watches the hearts of things
and does not move or speak. But when
at last he flies, his great wings
cover the darkening sky, and slowly,
as though praying, he lifts, almost motionless,
as he pushes the world away.
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The eyes are admittedly small in the frame, but the glint in the egret's eye as it turned its head toward the sun was quite dramatic to see. |
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02/10/2008 08:32:16 PM |
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02/10/2008 06:24:43 PM |
| This is a great photo, but it doesn't really work well for this challenge. |
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02/07/2008 04:57:00 AM |
| Great shot, just not enough 'eye' |
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02/06/2008 07:58:23 PM |
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02/06/2008 05:19:38 PM |
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02/06/2008 04:21:11 PM |
| Nice photo of a bird but the eye is not really the subject. |
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02/06/2008 11:27:38 AM |
| Very, very cool shot - but they eyes are such a small part of it. I'll rate it much higher in the next Birds challenge. |
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02/06/2008 08:22:08 AM |
Wow, I really like this..you have captured the "watchfullness" of the egret so well. My eyes are drawn in to his stare. I do kinda wish his feet were not cut off and that highlight in the back wasn't going through the end of his beak like that...
The side lighting is just wonderful and the fact that the bird is gazing into it just makes it that much better. |
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02/06/2008 07:43:00 AM |
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02/05/2008 08:01:20 PM |
| Excellent shot, the focus is great as well as the composition. |
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02/05/2008 07:21:50 PM |
| Would love to see more of his eye and less of him. |
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