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Romans 6:23 : "For the wages of sin is death."
Romans 6:23 : "For the wages of sin is death."
dleach


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 7 Deadly Sins II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: San Antonio, Tx
Date: Feb 10, 2006
Aperture: 16.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 11, 2006

Okay, I suspect people are going to hate this but the idea hit me while I was trying to take some pictures of turkey vultures (see my wildlife entry). I need a telephoto so I won't scare them away.

This time they flew into a tree so I took pictures of them in the tree. The weather was very overcast and beginning to drizzle.

When I looked at the pictures the vultures where basically silhouette.

Inside of RawShooter Premium:
- set the color temperature to 12500
- tint to 20
- shadow contrast to 77
- highlight contrast to 30
- Saturation 11
- hue 7
- vibrance 3
- Cropped and exported to TIFF

In Photoshop Elements 4.0:

- tweaked saturation some more
- resized image
- saved to web


Statistics
Place: 54 out of 133
Avg (all users): 5.2791
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 4.5510
Avg (non-participants): 5.4000
Views since voting: 1491
Views during voting: 468
Votes: 344
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/25/2006 06:19:26 PM
I think your photo is really good ! Gave it a 7. :)
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02/23/2006 08:10:43 AM
I really love the sunset colors of this. . .and well. ..I like the strong message of the photo too. Maybe there's one in the virtues challenge about the free gift of life :) Great job David. I really like this one alot!!

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02/22/2006 01:22:32 AM
Thank you.

The sky was all levels.

As I commented, it was a grey, misty, cold day in San Antonio. When I took the picture the birds came out as silhouttes. I wasn't taking the picture for the challenge but was trying to take pictures of the vultures per the wildlife challenge. But the dang birds wouldn't let me get close enough ;-).

When I was playing around with the pictures on my computer, the symbolism occurred to me with this challenge and I remembered this particular Bible verse so I started playing around with the images to see if I could get something I liked. That is when I discovered how setting the color tempurature on a raw image can affect the color!

I kept tweaking it till I could get to the red sky... I like the picture and I don't take any offense to the 51 low votes.

02/22/2006 01:08:02 AM
Personally I gave you a 6. I like the shot, the sky is amazing.
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02/22/2006 12:13:33 AM
wow! 51 voters gave me a 3 or less! Cool!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/20/2006 12:36:42 PM
I like this one! Great lighting...
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02/20/2006 11:49:03 AM
Nice idea...I like the dreamy feel that your shot has, and there are some utterly technical issues that are present, but not overpowering in my opinion. Good luck.
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02/19/2006 03:38:56 PM
Beautiful sky, and nice, sharp picture. Nice work
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02/18/2006 09:30:43 PM
Interesting shot. Ends there.
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02/18/2006 10:46:55 AM
8 I guess Hitchcock would have approved of this photo. I do. :-)
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02/17/2006 09:18:34 PM
Woah.. Cool!

I like big scarey birds.. Seriously I do!

9
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02/16/2006 06:23:26 PM
Wonderful interpretation with the title. Love the background color, it really adds to the picture and theme
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02/16/2006 09:36:25 AM
very nice. i absolutely love silouhettes of birds and trees. i mean, love.
"..but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ."
10.
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02/15/2006 02:25:12 PM
Cool concept. I like the red
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02/15/2006 01:48:22 PM
...but the gift of God is eternal life!
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02/15/2006 10:45:07 AM
Really cool shot 9
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02/15/2006 09:37:39 AM
Thankfully your title defines your picture. If the title were not there i would have been lost. Surely i know see the death in symbolism. 6
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