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Haute couture, "Love at First Sight"
Haute couture, "Love at First Sight"
hahn23


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Challenge: Glamour (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
Date: May 14, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2000s
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: May 19, 2009

 Red-naped sapsuckers, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, male and female, in mating ritual on a fence post. High fashion in the bird world. Glamour, yes!

Oh, I expect this will be DMNC by voters, who have little imagination. Although, if it somehow does well, then Disney's anthropomorphism lives.

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 83
Avg (all users): 4.8033
Avg (commenters): 4.3636
Avg (participants): 4.3000
Avg (non-participants): 4.8738
Views since voting: 1845
Views during voting: 494
Votes: 244
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 05/27/2009 06:19:40 PM
You're kidding me, right?
05/27/2009 12:50:00 AM
I'da DNMC'd it and I have a BIG imagination. :P
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/26/2009 11:53:37 PM
You should have saved this for free study perhaps...
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 05/26/2009 10:38:09 PM
This is a great moment caught in camera. I enjoy the tension that the two bird have with each other. I am wondering are the birds in love or are they going to fight. Saying that, I feel that this image does not really go with the challenge at hand. Now I am not saying that birds can't imply glamour or be glamorous. However, the subject of this image to me is the relationship which does not say "glamour"

Message edited by author 2009-05-27 21:58:08.
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 05/26/2009 12:53:55 PM
Fantastic capture though I just can't get to "glamour" with it. The expression on the top bird is too much.
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 05/25/2009 01:05:40 PM
Ooh... this is a really great shot! I'm torn voting on it, though, because it's a stretch to get this to fit with the challenge... wait... nevermind, I just looked up the exact definition and this fits well! Sorry for the confusion, haha. 8.
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 05/23/2009 01:54:50 PM
Wow! What a capture, crisp! Wow!
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 05/23/2009 06:25:27 AM
Captured in the correct moment, to bad the focus is misplaced. I don't see glamourous side of this photo all that much either, so not a very high score from me.
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 05/21/2009 01:05:13 AM
I'm the first person to say there's a lot of viable interpretations for this challenge, but this just doesn't say "glamour" at all for me.
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 05/20/2009 10:07:05 PM
Really cool photo, but wrong challenge
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 05/20/2009 09:30:46 AM
He-he. Cute! Looks like the focal point was off a tad as the heads of the birds are soft and a smidge OOF. In processing it seems to be a little oversharpened as well (perhaps to try and recover head detail?).
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 05/20/2009 05:05:18 AM
The whites in all the feathered areas appear blown out.
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 05/20/2009 02:06:26 AM
you need to take pictures of a different type of bird for glamour.
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