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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Private farmland
Date: Apr 14, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 14, 2007

*** Update: Took 2nd place in a photo contest at the local club. # entries around 40 - 50 ***

Killdeer taking off from slough.

Processing:

Lightroom: default settings

PS:
USM 20, 50, 0
Shadow/highlights - shadows 25%, radius 75
contrast +9
Hue/Sat - master sat + 14
flatten
auto levels
auto contrast
levels - midtone 0.83
smart sharpen - 77% radius 1.8, lens blur, more accurate, shadows 10, 75, 15, highlights 10, 75, 10
8 bits/channel
sRGB
save for web


Statistics
Place: 305 out of 573
Avg (all users): 5.6380
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 5.5133
Avg (non-participants): 5.9200
Views since voting: 1238
Views during voting: 234
Votes: 163
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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01/30/2008 10:50:52 PM
Wonderfully unique capture.
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08/05/2007 05:53:57 PM
Love this shot, great compo, and the DOF. Very nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/12/2007 04:24:25 PM
That's great!! Lovely shot!!
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05/30/2007 02:41:20 PM
Very nice! Like my shot, it goes to show that the middle of the pack in a DPC challenge can be a top award winner elsewhere (same as my macro shot). Congratulations Colette!
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05/25/2007 10:08:18 PM
Beautiful, and it has a sense of freedom about it.....
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05/25/2007 01:07:57 PM
Superbly captured and should certainly have scored much higher in my opinion.
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05/16/2007 04:12:41 PM
Positives:
Interesting minimalist composition. Technical quality combined with a good stop action capture are it's main strength. Nice bright backlighting framing the bird.

Technicals:
Solid technical quality. Color, lighting are fine. Looks like you maximized your camera settings to get as good of stop action as possible under the lighting conditions. That is tough when you have to anticipate the action like in a shot such as this.

Despite the shallow DOF the background still looks more mottled than smooth and that is slightly distracting.

It is generally better to capture these shots from the front rather than from behind. That is it's biggest compositional defect. Its a very solid image, though.

The Challenge:
This image scored middle average for the challenge. Voters thought this image was run of the mill. I voted this one 9, which is well above average by my scoring. I like the capture, general technical quality and framing. If taken from in front of the bird it had got a 10.

Suggestions:
You might consider doing a rough selection of the bird and applying some gaussian blur and/or noise reduction to the rest of the image to smooth out the background.

Next time try to capture that bird flying toward you. LOL!!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/08/2007 03:05:46 PM
My only 10 in voting - you were robbed!!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/03/2007 05:19:56 PM
Shame he`s not facing the camera.
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05/03/2007 01:11:31 PM
One of the best images of the backside of a bird I've seen at DPC :) ~10
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05/02/2007 09:23:54 AM
great timing to grab this shot but there is too much empty space on the right hand side and would perhaps benefit from being cropped slightly?
It is a shame the little fella is flying away from you and not towards you as it would have been great to see the face and not the bum lol
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05/01/2007 10:32:57 PM
Too bad the bird wasn't facing you. Maybe the title should have been bird butt ;)
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05/01/2007 04:54:32 PM
Very nice take....
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05/01/2007 03:32:59 PM
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