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Collection: bluebirds
Date Uploaded: Mar 1, 2009

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 This is the original for my action entry. I assume the challenge was because of the white background--I just hung a white sheet out. The interesting thing was that the bluebirds were not afraid of the white sheet. When I hung up a black piece of fabric, it took them about 5 hours to get used to it.

Newbies beware!! Do not work from your original and do a Save As--you cannot be sure that your original is untouched! This image was dq'd because Elements modified the metadata in my original when I did a Save As. (my husband didn't believe that. He thought I had messed up and done a Save. Nope--we experimented for 3.5 hours that night trying to figure out why my original wasn't and original. My version of elements modified the metadata header of the original when I did a Save As. Learn from my mistake!

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Olympus E-5
Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 11/02/2009 09:36:28 PM
Great technique for getting that white bg. I thought at first that the birdies wouldn't want to get close to it but it seems I was wrong. I'll remember this.
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Apple iPhone 6s+
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 03/16/2009 09:04:55 PM
What a great idea to get a clean background. Your photo is beautiful. I'm sorry your software messed you up. I've never had a problem with Photoshop changing the original when I 'save as', but I found two other pitfalls while processing:

1. anything that automatically imports or copies your pix from your camera will add a stamp.

2. Windows viewer will modify the original if you rotate the image to see it in the portrait orientation.
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