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Bringing Home the Snake-on
Bringing Home the Snake-on
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Collection: b/w
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Date: May 6, 2009
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: May 6, 2009

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Comments: 6
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 This hawk lives in my backyard with its family. It is bringing home a snake for dinner to the little ones. I was out back listening to the barred owls yap at each other loudly in the wetlands behind the house this PM and this bird decided to pay me a visit.

The lighting was horrible - high sky, sun behind the subject and me position placing the sun almost directly in the path...ouch!

Unedited Version:


Editing: RAW conversion (really bad lighting conditions with the sun behind me so I played with parameters before conversion to JPEG), Dup layer for Topaz Portrait Dramatic and Topaz Crisp, desaturation using hue/saturation, a single treatment with Adamus sharpening, resize for web, add border, done.

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 05/17/2010 10:42:24 PM
I am so glad I came across this photo - not only is it unique and filled with motion but your explanation on how you pp it gave me a lot of new tricks to try on my shots that were photographed under similar conditions. Great job!
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 05/15/2009 09:32:31 AM
Wow the black and white really makes a difference. Now we can really see the light thru the feathers too. I have a horrible time catching birds in flight so I can appreciate the difficulty of this shot.
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 05/07/2009 04:36:38 PM
very cool & quite dramatic..add scary music~
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 05/07/2009 04:23:04 PM
What you did here is, not only capture detail, but capture a sense of motion and impending action that works. Really works.
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 05/06/2009 10:41:30 PM
That is a difficult lighting condition, but you salvaged lots of detail with TA. Great catch nonetheless!
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 05/06/2009 05:02:38 PM
Good job salvaging the shot! Topaz seems to be really useful for that.
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