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A Dolphin's Tale
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Challenge: Free Study 2015-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2015
Camera: Sony Alpha a6000
Lens: Sony E PZ 18-105mm f/4 G OSS
Date: Apr 10, 2015
Aperture: F6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/800
Date Uploaded: Apr 27, 2015

 Did you see it?! The Dolphin (toy one) that is. :-)

On a trip to Florida and we went out on a boat for Dolphin watching. As we made our way out there was this family of Osprey on a buoy. I grabbed a handful of shots as we went past with my lens maxed out at 105mm.

It wasn't until we got back that evening and I was going thru the photos that I spotted the dolphin toy in the nest. One of favorite finds EVER! :-D

What made it even more fun was that earlier in the day we had been to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to see the dolphins (it's the location where they filmed the movies Dolphin Tale 1 & 2).

I wish the pole wasn't there, but it was too much to remove I think and stay within the challenge rules. So I left some wood in the lower part of the frame to show some context.

I'm quite pleased with the performance of this camera/lens combo thus far. Getting pretty decent results (IMO of course). :-P

Post-processing:

Raw in Corel After Shot Pro 2
- adjust contrast and highlights some, along with bumping up the black
- export as TIFF

PSP X7
- crop & resize

Adobe Lightroom 4
- CEP 4 - Tonal Contrast

PSP X7
- AthenTech Perfectly Clear (noise reduction)
- Darken the lower edges with brush
- USM

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 147
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Avg (commenters): 6.0000
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Avg (non-participants): 5.9091
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Views during voting: 159
Votes: 85
Comments: 3
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/06/2015 07:28:39 PM
wow! What a great capture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2015 11:06:39 AM
How cool is that. Nice capture. I didn't score it very high though (4) because there wasn't enough to hold me. I do think that the scene may have produced more moments that would have grabbed me and kept me looking. Good Luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2015 05:47:31 AM
love it. That eye is riveting. As the background is quite clean I would have been tempted to clone out the pole
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