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Challenge: Wildlife III (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: 2007 Challenges
Camera: Canon PowerShot A700
Location: near Manotick, ON
Date: Jan 18, 2007
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: auto
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2007

Red deer vs elk at a farm where deer are captive-bred for venison.

editing: crop, contrast/brightness, saturation/lightness, smudge, resize, unsharp.

Statistics
Place: 169 out of 218
Avg (all users): 5.2754
Avg (commenters): 5.3750
Avg (participants): 5.1863
Avg (non-participants): 5.3433
Views since voting: 860
Views during voting: 346
Votes: 236
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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01/29/2007 09:20:52 PM
Snow is actually difficult to deal with in photos that's why there are so many grey or blue snow photos from underexposure. But you mastered a snow shot. The exposure of the snow is good-white snow. I enjoy the way the deer/elk are going about their meal but casting a careful eye your way.
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01/29/2007 09:16:33 PM
Very expressive, great capture. I agree with skewsme that lightening them up a notch would help them "pop" via more details. The eye always tends to be drawn to the brightest thing in the frame, and in this case it is the snow behind the deer. You have all the right elements here, just a difficult lighting situation, in which either fill-flash on site or corrections in PS might render a result you liked even more.
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01/29/2007 09:14:40 PM
Very nice capture. I like the way they are interacting with each other. I just wish it were a bit sharper. I gave it a 6 but if it were sharper, it would have easily been a 7 in my book.
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01/29/2007 04:27:46 PM
I'm not entirely sure that I agree with the too dark comments here, only a small part of the animals' fronts are dark on my screen. Would probably have been a difficult shot to meter, too, what with the contrast.
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01/29/2007 10:50:30 AM
Thanks everyone for all the useful comments - I totally lucked into this shot. The weather was *meant* to be sunny, but of course it ended up being overcast, so I had the daunting task of trying to shoot large, shy animals against a very drab background.

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01/29/2007 03:17:22 AM
Excellent title! Great timing on the capture, too - they really do look likes kids at the schoolyard about to get in a scuffle.
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01/29/2007 01:26:00 AM
A really wonderful composition and capture.
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01/29/2007 01:09:38 AM
I like the capture and their browny-brownness. maybe try a smidgeon of shadow/highlight or one of the PS fill-flash actions to brighten them up a peg.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/25/2007 09:38:30 AM
nice but way too dark
also, lacks detail
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01/24/2007 10:47:54 AM
I like the expressions and body language telling a story here. A little dark but it's tough to balance snow and dark animals.
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01/23/2007 05:20:19 PM
too dark
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01/22/2007 11:03:52 PM
You cheated.....you're feeding them! NO bribery allowed! Very nice capture.
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01/22/2007 05:11:54 PM
Nice capture! anyway, I really like it but today I guess I am being over critical, and as people say they like constructive critisism I will let you a little of that... Theres a light yellow spot up the two (deers?) on the left, theres a blurry visible spot under the chest and beetween the legs of the deer at the right, and overly, I am feeling the image a little dark in the two middle animals.
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01/22/2007 02:19:54 PM
Cute.
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01/22/2007 07:39:19 AM
Awwwww. . . .how CUTE!
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01/22/2007 06:51:01 AM
This is adorable!
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