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MaryO


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Challenge: Free Study 2008-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: People
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Newport News, VA
Date: Nov 23, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Snapshot, Birds
Date Uploaded: Nov 24, 2008

This little girl was feeding a bunch of gulls and ducks who were really assertive, to say the least. She periodically stopped feeding them long enough to whirl and jump, and catching her with the gull in a similar pose made for an appealing shot. It's not as pretty as some of the other shots I got (and I cut off the top of her head) but it makes me smile, and it tells a story, and I love shots that tell a story.

PP - converted from RAW, levels, white balance, dodged girl's hair and a little on gull, resized, sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 196 out of 417
Avg (all users): 5.6273
Avg (commenters): 6.1538
Avg (participants): 5.6577
Avg (non-participants): 5.5600
Views since voting: 648
Views during voting: 241
Votes: 161
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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12/07/2008 07:48:27 PM
sharp
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12/06/2008 06:15:21 PM
This image is a bit of a puzzle. Well executed. But the juxtaposition of the bird and the girl(?) confuses me.
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12/05/2008 11:01:24 AM
I don't know if this was by accident or not, but what great timing! I love the fact that they are going in different directions and completely unaware of each other!
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12/05/2008 09:37:40 AM
I like the juxtaposition in this with the girl and the bird, nice candid. There's good clarity with the bird, the feathers look fantastic. DOF is perfect. I'm a sucker for square framing, too.
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12/04/2008 08:53:16 PM
nice motion shot!
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12/04/2008 12:00:14 PM
Cool capture of the bird. I also like it's white eye, but the girl in the background is very distracting.
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12/03/2008 11:17:32 PM
Great timing!
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12/03/2008 07:30:28 PM
They'd found her those 5 years ago, lying in a clump of grass, dirty and abandoned, crying. Normally, it'd have been considered a meal, that small and helpless thing. It wouldn't have stood a chance.

Cartha and her brood, however, were not normal. They'd always been a bit of an outcast group among their kind. They preferred to feed on scraps instead of carrion, and for this they'd been forced from the community. So it was fortunate for this tiny babe, abandoned here for whatever reason, that it was Cartha's clan that happened upon her. Some stroke of fortune, or perhaps a gift from some higher power, they'd never know.

What they did know is that they tended to that child, feeding it, keeping it warm, caring for it, and it grew with them and became one with them. Now, these 5 years later, Cartha new it was time to set the child free, to be with its own kind and so she set out to teach it to fly and go off to search for her own.

It was a disaster.
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12/03/2008 06:41:22 PM
excellent shot , focus is spot on! and the positioning & the composition is brilliant IMO , 8
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12/03/2008 03:32:12 PM
lol, cool capture. Great detail in the bird
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12/03/2008 02:05:19 PM
great capture :)
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12/02/2008 09:52:03 PM
I either need the entire girl (with her head) or none of her, to make this really a good one, in my opinion. I think the focus is wonderful on the bird. Nicely captured bird. (not voting yet)
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12/02/2008 05:48:38 AM
good...wish you included the whole of the girl's head though
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12/01/2008 08:26:43 PM
good timing
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