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Please do not "mock" me. I'm a pretty bird!
Please do not "mock" me. I'm a pretty bird!
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Challenge: Shallow DOF II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX7590
Location: state park in florida
Date: Dec 20, 2005
Aperture: f 3.70
ISO: 140
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 20, 2005

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Statistics
Place: 240 out of 346
Avg (all users): 4.9853
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 4.8333
Avg (non-participants): 5.1053
Views since voting: 769
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 272
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 02/07/2006 09:53:57 PM
Hi Jacque,

This was a 4/5 shot for me. I wound up giving it a four for the following reasons:
- With bird shots such as this I believe that head and eye should be in sharp focus. This is not quiet the case, it is a little bit soft.
- The blurred leaf and branch behind the birds head further softens the apperance of the head.
- The colours are a little flat. That is to say there is nothing which gives the image 'punch'.
- Technically it is not a shallow DOF. The bird is in focus and the tree well behind it is not. just being picky, though.

In terms of improving it - I think the full branch across the image and through the bird is very distracting. By this I mean it draws attention away from the bird.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/27/2005 03:38:04 PM
nice image
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 12/27/2005 10:29:48 AM
shame about the branch in the background intersecting the bird's head
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 12/24/2005 08:14:10 PM
Seems to be a better example of Bokeh the Shallow DOF. 5
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 12/22/2005 05:48:20 PM
contrast and feather sharpness needs some attention
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 12/21/2005 01:38:21 PM
this comes across as verry low res or verry over sharpened and noisy...its just not as clean an image as i could or should be to recive a higher vote
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 12/21/2005 10:11:44 AM
Parts of the branch and bird seem a little overexposed to me.
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