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Challenge: Wildlife IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
Location: San Diego (Santee Lakes)
Date: Oct 18, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2008

 The snowy egret fishes by pacing up and down the edge of the water, then sticking its head in and grabbing small fish.

Post processing:
* Raw conversion
* crop
* NeatImage
* multiply layer on the white feathers
* resize, sharpen, sfw

[Oct. 21st, 2008 02:40:58 PM]

Since it came up in the comments....the snowy egret has yellow legs and feet. The way it fishes is by waving its feet around in the water, then grabbing little fishies that see the feet and think they're something good to eat.

Statistics
Place: 65 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.0000
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 6.0519
Avg (non-participants): 5.9695
Views since voting: 818
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 208
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/25/2008 10:21:58 AM
Nice shot. I like the horizontal reflections. I might've cropped foreground out of it more.
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 10/22/2008 10:18:40 AM
Nice reflection colors! He stands out nicely against the water bkgrd, too bad he couldn't have been in the water so he would've been surrounded by those pretty colors. Don't you hate when wild critters don't take directions! ;)
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 10/22/2008 06:16:50 AM
Lovely bird, nice job on the exposure and I like the feathers blowing in the breeze. DOF strikes me as a little odd in the foreground as it seems to be uniformly OOF and then suddenly in-focus at the shoreline, rather than a gradual change. Could be a trick of the angles of the camera and the shore.
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 10/21/2008 11:11:42 AM
Lovely bird.
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 10/21/2008 10:12:58 AM
like the pond slime on the legs, cool touch! lovely bird. 7
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 10/20/2008 08:56:15 AM
Beautiful and nice composition. For me the bird is slightly overwhelmed by the vivid colour and horizontals in the water.
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 10/20/2008 08:55:58 AM
if only that out of focus thing wasn't at the bottom. this is an excellent photo even with the out of focus thing, my guess is top ten, no doubt.
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 10/19/2008 09:22:31 PM
Nice composition and capture. The OOF logs/twigs in the bottom right hand corner catches my eye a little.
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