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Worth the 4 hour wait
Worth the 4 hour wait
sjturner


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Challenge: Free Study XI (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
Location: Bempton Cliffs, England
Date: Apr 30, 2006
Aperture: F/3.5 (3.61)
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2006

 Camped out at Bempton Cliffs, England for a rare early sighting, this little beauty turned up after a 4 hour vigil. Slight adjust to Shadow Contrast, Saturation & Vibrance on the RAW image plus cropped and add a black border.

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Place: 171 out of 211
Avg (all users): 5.0272
Avg (commenters): 5.5263
Avg (participants): 4.9010
Avg (non-participants): 5.1807
Views since voting: 795
Views during voting: 253
Votes: 184
Comments: 23
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AuthorThread
 05/11/2006 11:32:33 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

First let me welcome you to DPChallenge. I expect the addiction to grab you quick.

You got yourself a shot of a cool looking bird here. There are a couple of things that it is lacking though to give it a higher score. The shot overall is a bit blurry. The lines on the bird arent crisp and the detail overall is lacking. A sharper focus would have helped out. I think tweaking some of the colors and saturating them a bit more would also do well to make the little birdie stand out a bit better. Maybe even desaturating the green on the rocks might have helped out some.

Your crop is also a bit off. Its not quite centered but at the same time it is not offcentered enough to have a positive impact. I probably would have gone with a true square crop with him in the center. This also would have gotten rid of some of the (what I believe is) water inthe upper corner. The waters color and noise doesnt do much for this shot.

Please dont let my critique deter you. A 5+ score for your second entry is nothing to complain about. Keep playing, experimenting and sucking up as much knowledge as you can from this site and you will be ribboning sooner than you realize. Take it from me.

Tim
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2006 08:20:51 AM
just a little on the blurry side, but great to get this shot
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 05/06/2006 12:35:22 PM
Nice to see this guy again..like them so much..
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 05/05/2006 08:20:16 PM
OK this is a great capture and a very good image. Did you really wait four hours? And what IS this bird?
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 05/05/2006 07:42:44 PM
Bit let down by lack of sharpness. Can you reshoot? ;)
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 05/05/2006 02:24:21 AM
Great capture, composition, but a bit soft.
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 05/05/2006 02:00:47 AM
Wish there was better focus on the bird, not just the head. Nice catch though and as you say, worth waiting for.
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 05/04/2006 11:54:53 AM
Unfortunately, seems a bit out of focus.
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 05/03/2006 09:53:44 PM
Focus is not the best
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 05/03/2006 07:54:16 PM
Background behind bird detracts rather than enhances
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 05/03/2006 05:48:53 PM
Bad quality ... you could have used some filters to make the photo more clear and even a litle sharpening would have done a lot. Not the best puffin shoot I have seen but thats just my 2 cents.
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 05/03/2006 03:41:39 PM
Cool looking bird
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 05/03/2006 12:28:27 PM
nice shot

Message edited by author 2006-05-08 13:50:09.
 05/03/2006 10:24:03 AM
Details in this are a little soft
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 05/03/2006 01:37:16 AM
too soft. Also, if the head of the bird protudes from the rest of the rocks in the background, it would have made the subject stronger.
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 05/02/2006 09:56:46 PM
This is a nice shot--certainly worth the wait. It's too bad that that the bird was not further out on the rock ledge so you could avoid the cluttered background of the rocks.
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 05/02/2006 01:37:26 PM
Yes it was :) This is amazing!
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 05/01/2006 07:21:48 PM
Nice capture but I would like to see a sharper focus.
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 05/01/2006 05:55:09 PM
Would love to see this - where exactly did you go? I like this a lot but I don't think it's sharp enough, honestly. Nice composition though.
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 05/01/2006 01:04:01 PM
nice shot ,alltho not very clear and fuzzy ,tiny bit of sharpening will do the job 7
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 05/01/2006 12:43:30 PM
great capture .. but the focus seems a little soft
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 05/01/2006 08:33:42 AM
It's very cute, but out of focus...I'm guessing you shot it through a glass - that's why
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 05/01/2006 02:43:39 AM
seems slightly out of focus, still a nice shot though.
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