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Pelican Itch
Pelican Itch
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Challenge: On the Beach II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Digital Concepts 2x Telephoto Lens
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jul 31, 2012
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/636
Date Uploaded: Aug 1, 2012

 At the Lake Merritt bird sanctuary.

Minimal editing with IrfanView.

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 432mm (35mm EQ) plus 2x Telephoto extender
-Rotate 90°
-Resize
-Image > Sharpen (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at 99% quality = 292KB

File: Pelican_IMG_1650-DPCiv99

Statistics
Place: 70 out of 71
Avg (all users): 4.1961
Avg (commenters): 3.8000
Avg (participants): 4.3158
Avg (non-participants): 4.1250
Views since voting: 980
Views during voting: 222
Votes: 102
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 03/27/2014 10:15:38 PM
This is interesting. I have a couple of older long lenses that have fungus and other glass problems, and get similar results with them, though not this much C A.
Breathing on the lens, and shooting as the condensation clears can get this effect too.
Evidently it's not DPC blue material, but still a cool shot of a radioactive pelican.
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 08/21/2012 09:25:11 PM
Was the odd ghosting due to the tele extender then?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/12/2012 11:17:30 AM
Sorry - there's just something about the ghosting/blur on this that I can't get past. Great title.
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 08/10/2012 09:38:15 PM
That is a really strange effect
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 08/09/2012 10:37:42 PM
Not a fan of the processing on this, the heavenly glow just does not add anything positive to the shot IMHO...
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 08/07/2012 04:01:01 AM
There are a lot of things holding this photo back. First, it's over edited, with the halos on upon the pelican, There is also an awkward element on the left side, and the photo is overall very flat. You have captured an interesting posture for the pelican, but have worked it entirely too much, eclipsing the subject matter.
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 08/06/2012 08:07:40 PM
A little heavy on the diffuse glow.
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 08/06/2012 12:50:24 PM
Not sure about this pp'g...
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