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The Golden Bird
The Golden Bird
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Challenge: The Brothers Grimm (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Oct 3, 2008
Aperture: f/ 8
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/320 sec.
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2008

 So maybe this bird is not big enough to fly of with an apple or two or three. But it is sorta golden and it is the first one I've ever shot and it's in the list of The Brothers Grimm stories and Rapunzel and her crew were just not in town this week.

Post: Camera raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Shapen. Crop, crop, crop, crop, crop... Spot edit the remains of a twig center bottom and to little iritations about the leaf in the upper right corner. Sharpen. Remove color cast. Resize. Sharpen.

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Place: 38 out of 82
Avg (all users): 5.6443
Avg (commenters): 5.2500
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Views since voting: 919
Views during voting: 359
Votes: 194
Comments: 9
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/12/2008 04:20:06 PM
nice details in the bird - the background is quite distracting and because of it the bird does not separate easily
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 10/12/2008 12:10:43 PM
Love the idea and the image. I think the bird is in focus, but the flower in the background is so large and out of focus that it draws the eye away from the beautiful bird and because the color tones are so similar make the bird appear to be out of focus as well. I guess to sum it up in a short but simple way the foreground and backgroung are at war for focus in this image, and it ends up hurting the eyes.
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 10/11/2008 08:21:34 PM
I might have plucked that dead leaf from the upper left, as I don't believe it adds to the shot, but great colors.
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 10/11/2008 02:16:53 PM
very lucky to get such a clear shot of the bird, but the leaf behind it detracts a bit.
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 10/08/2008 09:18:38 PM
Nice sharp bird shot, but the branch coming out of it's head and the dead leaf distract from it
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 10/08/2008 02:48:25 PM
Lovely capture, very pretty bird and so sharply focused. I love the sunflower in the back, it does look a wee bit like it's coming from the bird's head but that aside, it's a beautiful shot.
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 10/07/2008 03:38:51 PM
very nice, good focus, good color

The flower growing out of the head isn't optimal
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 10/06/2008 11:04:36 AM
the composition is a little awkward with the flower in the background, but color and focus is really nice.
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 10/05/2008 09:58:53 PM
Very good capture...
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