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Challenge: Wildlife IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Oct 19, 2008
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Animals, Birds
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2008

 Great Blue Heron taking flight from Oakland's Lake Merritt.

-Handheld, Tv Mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88&/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 176KB

Statistics
Place: 140 out of 159
Avg (all users): 4.8756
Avg (commenters): 4.2000
Avg (participants): 4.9265
Avg (non-participants): 4.8480
Views since voting: 925
Views during voting: 341
Votes: 193
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 11/01/2008 08:18:27 PM
I looked at this one after noticing your outtake. This is definitely the best of the bunch. I love watching these and Egrets.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/27/2008 12:22:43 AM
Originally posted by Jedusi:
Nice placing of the Heron in the shot - but the huge lump of wood is just too distracting for me.

Unfortunately the eye naturally gets drawn to brighter areas of an image and you clearly want people looking at the bird and not the wood. One answer would have been to spot edit it and tone it down, so it is still there - just darker.

I am so used to using Basic editing for most all my entries I didn't even think of selectively darkening the wood, though I made a quick attempt at it when I read your comment (see below). I did consider entering the unadjusted cropped version, but I decided it was important to include the water.

 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/23/2008 09:39:06 PM
tough shot i know, but bad focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/23/2008 01:03:30 AM
I think a faster shutter would've made this crisper. Good color contrast.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2008 11:43:47 PM
a little to blurry....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2008 03:06:50 PM
Nice placing of the Heron in the shot - but the huge lump of wood is just too distracting for me.

Unfortunately the eye naturally gets drawn to brighter areas of an image and you clearly want people looking at the bird and not the wood. One answer would have been to spot edit it and tone it down, so it is still there - just darker.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2008 02:18:57 PM
very good try, tough to get a GBH in flight. Practice panning after birds so you can have a blurred bg but focused bird.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2008 12:34:47 PM
Just not sharp enough.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2008 12:29:14 PM
i like the movement here. good job
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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