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Challenge: Silhouettes (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Outside my house in Oregon
Date: Apr 17, 2004
Aperture: F/6,3
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/1250 sec
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2004
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After an hour or two of trying to get a shot of a bird in flight, I finally came inside with a memory card full of cloud pictures and random other useless photographs. Among them, I found this shot, which turned out to look decent with a LOT of editing.
First off, this is a small piece of a bizarre picture involving clouds, lines, and out of focus tree branches. I had taken it quickly (the bird was the subject, but I was far away and it was very small even at maximum zoom... when I came closer, it flew away) so I would have SOME photograph of a bird to show for my time wasted, even if it was bad... lol.
I first resized a little, then cropped out the part of the picture that I wanted to use, ran it through NeatImage to get rid of lots of noise, and cloned out some icky branches/leaves. Next I used hue/saturation to colourize the photo and blurred, dodged, and burned the cloudy background to make it more smooth. At some point, I used Curves to fiddle with the light levels.. then I sharpened and added the border, and that was that.
This was certainly different for me. First time I've ever gotten rid of trees and kept power or telephone lines! |
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04/25/2004 09:12:20 PM |
| You got another 10 from me. I've given you an average of 7.25 for 8 of your photos. I knew I added you to my favorites for a reason. Great work as usual! |
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04/25/2004 06:50:45 PM |
| Great simple composition makes this shot very interesting. The great background of the sky really helps to make the silhouette of the bird stand out. One thing that IMHO may make it even better is cropping out the bottom power/telephone line. It would give a better balance. |
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04/25/2004 06:21:44 PM |
| My only 10 of the challenge. Silhouettes can be used so effectively in conjunction with a minimalist composition and you've really played that to your advantage. The wires are placed perfectly in the frame to keep balance and the bird's silhouette is very sharp and perfectly sideways. This is a really great shot! |
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04/25/2004 05:06:57 PM |
| Maybe a little over-sharp, with noticable halos; might work a bit better if the bird was over to the right a bit. |
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04/24/2004 04:33:44 PM |
| Good concept but I would liked to have seen more background. |
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04/24/2004 04:13:51 AM |
| I like your idea, your silouette, and your placement. I would very much prefer that you had removed the other three electric lines. I don't think that they help you at all. Thanks for sharing. |
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04/23/2004 04:43:14 PM |
| how I would have loved to see this without the bottom 2 wires.. great job non the less. |
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04/21/2004 10:45:27 PM |
| The lower lines pull my attention from the subject; croping just above them allows my attention to remain focussed. I like the tones a lot. |
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04/21/2004 06:45:15 PM |
| Nice bird silhouette. I think the bottom two wires could have been cropped off and the picture would have been more effective. The color scheme is nice. |
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04/21/2004 01:59:05 PM |
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04/21/2004 03:38:55 AM |
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04/20/2004 09:07:36 PM |
IMHO the bottom lines are not needed elements and detract from the true subject of the shot. Without them you have a much cleaner and more impactful composition!
TC |
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04/19/2004 04:05:52 PM |
| Meets the challenge but subject is so small, or there's too much negative space, so in the end it doesn't work for me. For me, mind you. |
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04/19/2004 11:52:28 AM |
| Nice idea - I like the sepia effect. Compsitionally, I think your image is just the top half of the frame. Title perfect. |
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04/19/2004 11:38:50 AM |
| Shoulda cropped out those wires at the bottom. Really distracting. |
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04/19/2004 09:53:06 AM |
| Way too much sharpening for my tastes. Then the subject is very small. |
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04/19/2004 08:01:11 AM |
| I don't think the border compliments the shot (perhaps a thin, dark one??) Composition is interesting - I like the use of parellel lines and negaive space. Overall a bit static. |
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