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A Little Chickadee
A Little Chickadee
MaryO


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Challenge: Anything But Landscape (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Birds
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Jul 11, 2008
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Jul 11, 2008

Sitting on a branch in a patch of sunlight. Looks like he's about to say something, like "go away so I can get back to eating!"

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, 2nd layer/Gaussian blur/erased bird and foreground branch/merged, dodged/burnt eye and toes, blurred/cloned out noise in eye, burnt bill, colored right side buff where it was reflecting green, cloned out a few hotspots, cloned texture onto blown part of beak, resized, sharpened with slight noise reduction, added border.

Statistics
Place: 113 out of 247
Avg (all users): 5.7086
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.5811
Avg (non-participants): 5.8312
Views since voting: 863
Views during voting: 228
Votes: 151
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/18/2008 10:01:03 AM
Good composition. The way the two branches matches with the black shades on the bird's face is nice. Could have been more sharper.
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07/17/2008 10:49:08 AM
I like the framing of this, and the way the branch behind him seems lit in just the right places.
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07/15/2008 02:28:55 PM
nice lighting and color
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07/14/2008 08:33:48 PM
Really nice capture.
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