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Challenge: Water IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D3100
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR
Location: Wiltshire, England
Date: Sep 21, 2014
Aperture: f/20
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Date Uploaded: Sep 21, 2014

 Caught by chance on a very bright day. Struggled with hotspots. Not sure how I could reduce brightness on back of swan and grateful for advice.
Processin - minimal and as uneducated as ever! Dropped exposure, raised contrast. Threw in lots of definition and sharpness.......

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 89
Avg (all users): 5.6023
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7632
Avg (non-participants): 5.4800
Views since voting: 336
Views during voting: 161
Votes: 88
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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 10/03/2014 11:32:09 AM
Greetings from the Crit club

First off... what a great shot.The angle works wonderful and there is a story in this image. The white swan with the black water makes this excellent for B&W and also in this regard you have chosen wise to go with this processing. You mention difficult light conditions and also the subject here being white would have made even worse.
Risky with the 1/15th and I notice with your outtake movement very noticeable and having things work out on this one with hardly any movement visible is great.... yet where it counts in the water it has movement.. giving further dynamics to the image. Comp works well and placed perfectly.

Unfortunately the image did not score very well in the challenge and understandably so as the main subject here is the swan with the water playing a secondary role. Your title supports the water theme slightly but viewers are less concerned with this. I suspect that's the main reason why this image suffered under the hands of voters

It's advanced editing and I would have cloned out the beard growing from under the birds neck - the twigs. There is a slight hot spot on the back of the swan losing detail in feathers but Im not to concerned about that.
All in all a really nice shot and well done photographically speaking.

Regards
Rian Botes
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 10/01/2014 08:31:43 AM
A subject so close to burning is very risky in challenges... You never know what kind of monitors people have.
You got a very nice and tricky one... exposure had to be carefully measured.

Cheers and thanks for your comments.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/27/2014 10:12:37 PM
Nice - good exposure and tones, simple composition and perfect amount of blur in the water.
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