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Challenge: Polka Dots (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Home, Washington, USA
Date: Nov 28, 2009
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Animals, Birds
Date Uploaded: Nov 28, 2009

 Spotted belly feathers of a flicker feeding at a suet block. Taken through the window.

Title a take-off on the old TV show about a horse (not a bird).

-Simple editing with IrfanView on a friends laptop.
-Handheld, Manual mode
-Brightness, Contrast, Gama and Saturation adjustments
-Resize
-Sharpen (applied twice)
SaveAs JPEG at 100% quality = 283KB

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 78
Avg (all users): 4.8212
Avg (commenters): 4.6667
Avg (participants): 4.4615
Avg (non-participants): 4.9464
Views since voting: 840
Views during voting: 285
Votes: 151
Comments: 8
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 12/07/2009 05:28:00 PM
Enjoy seeing flicker's breast dots and back of tail markings at the same time. (My Friend Flicka, originally a book).
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/06/2009 06:26:52 PM
Nice way of integrating nature into the challenge. It must be hard to replicate the "Polka Dot" patter in nature. I can also imaging that it is difficult to photograph the belly of a bird.
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 12/06/2009 04:55:30 PM
Nice dots! Needs a bit more contrast, and a bit more saturation.
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 12/05/2009 08:56:32 PM
In order to meet the challenge, this should be tighter crop to put emphasis on the polks dot. One of my low score, sorry.
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 12/05/2009 02:21:00 PM
I'm not sure if a tighter crop would have improved this somewhat but you've definitely got some spots going on there...
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 11/30/2009 01:33:20 PM
I really would have like to see this a little brighter in exposure...your background although is quite blown out...but what a pretty bird (Woodpecker right)
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 11/30/2009 10:16:11 AM
Nice capture! The bright BG would make this shot difficult to post process.
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 11/30/2009 08:41:30 AM
Coming off to me as heavily backlit and flat looking, I'm afraid. Perhaps some adjustments (such as curves, saturation, contrast) could punch it up a bit but I am not really sure.
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