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Swan Drops
Swan Drops
mcieslak


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: High Contrast III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: The Lough, Cork
Date: Jun 9, 2008
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400s
Galleries: Animals, Birds
Date Uploaded: Jun 9, 2008

 Decided to finally make the walk to the lough and shoot the dozens of resident swans there. Narrowed the choices to about eight or so, and after much contemplation, decided to go with this one. I hope this will finally break the ever elusive 6.0

Photo - Tones, Contrast, Sats (decreased the blues and increased the reds/orange), Crop.

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Place: 67 out of 294
Avg (all users): 5.9064
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
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Views during voting: 269
Votes: 171
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/11/2008 12:40:56 PM
A little soft for my tastes which to me detractsb from the contrast.....subjective, of course. 6
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 06/11/2008 09:51:28 AM
Lovely. Well done not to have blown the highlights in the feathers.
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 06/11/2008 09:03:21 AM
the angle is disconcerting
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