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Mama Cardinal
Drake


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Challenge: Orange IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED VR
Location: Battle Creek, Mi
Date: Feb 17, 2015
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2015

Taken in my yard. Love the colors variations on the female cardinal.

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Place: 18 out of 84
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Avg (commenters): 7.5000
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Views since voting: 433
Views during voting: 154
Votes: 79
Comments: 6
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08/08/2015 10:37:41 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

A lovely bird study that meets the challenge well.

This is a very competent bird shot, with good sharp focus on the eye with good feather detail throughout. Your chosen aperture isolates the bird well from the background. I find the portrait orientation gives the bird too little space to look into with too much extraneous space above and below. Perhaps a landscape with the bird in the same position but with more space to look into might have worked better? There is a lot of twiggery but there's not a lot you could do about that.

I am here to give you my honest and critical opinion and there are a couple of relatively minor things I would have altered. I'm thinking it was probably snowing at the time? It's a shame it wasn't heavier but there are three white spots that stand out, I think they would have been better to be cloned out completely. The other is the twig immediately behind the end of the birds beak, I think again, I would have cloned this out too.

It's a nice exposure with good detail on the bird and the background highlight is not too overblown and distract, all in all a very good attempt, Sid
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/01/2015 11:48:33 PM
Gorgeous.
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03/01/2015 11:01:13 PM
Great light and detail.
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02/28/2015 08:58:06 AM
There are two of these in this challenge. And the location looks similar. Joint photowalk?
02/24/2015 07:53:45 PM
Not voting in this at all, commenting only..

I love seeing these birds, I have not lately in my neck of the woods. Nice capture
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02/23/2015 11:10:29 AM
Top 2, awesome
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