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LL Grey Jay
LL Grey Jay
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Challenge: Birds (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Mt. Si, Washington
Date: Jun 8, 2005
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 9, 2005

 I took this hike to find one of these guys, and this fellow was the only one to oblige me. I got several pictures of him before he finally got full and flew away.

This is also my most edited image yet. Since it was so dark I had a hard time getting rid of alot of the noize, but it worked out alright in the end.

PP:
Created layers for the Background, Bird/Hand, and then one for just the hand.

1)In the BG I neat-imaged, then used a gaussian blur to get rid of most of the rest of the artifacts.

2)For the bird/hand I neat-imaged, use Unsharp Mask, and then did a little dodging/burning on the bright areas.

3)Then for just the hand I adjusted the brightness a little.

4)In the end I adjusted levels and saturation a little. Then resized for web and re-sharpened with USM.

I kind of think I over-edited it, but we'll see.

Statistics
Place: 114 out of 289
Avg (all users): 5.6517
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5350
Avg (non-participants): 5.8182
Views since voting: 1141
Views during voting: 358
Votes: 267
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 09/15/2005 11:50:29 PM
Beautiful detail on the bird and good DOF on the hand/background. I agree that it could be cropped a bit more closely so as to eliminatthe unsupporting elments of the shot. Great capture all in all, and makes minor flaws seem inconsequential becuase of the delicate nature of the photograph. Nice work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/19/2005 08:15:57 PM
Nice shot, however to me the brightness of the footpath distracts from the bird
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 06/19/2005 11:52:03 AM
Nice picture. I think that having the whole hand in the photo would help it out more.
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 06/17/2005 07:58:23 PM
Great capture. . . literally. Could you have cropped more off the top to bring the focus to the bird in the hand? Still gets an 8 BOL
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 06/15/2005 04:38:51 PM
Great photo but needs cropping to landscape orientation.
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 06/15/2005 08:17:33 AM
Good picture, and nice to have the birds that tame! Lucky you!
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 06/14/2005 12:13:14 AM
I don't usually like to see hands in these types of pics, but in this case I quite like it.9
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 06/13/2005 04:33:40 PM
This is awesome!!!!! I love how your hand gives you the perspective of how small this little fellow is. Great job!
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 06/13/2005 09:38:47 AM
Adorable. I would have tried cropping it square, or portrait, but it's great this way too. Terrific detail and catchlight in the eye. 8
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 06/13/2005 09:23:56 AM
How cute. I like the introduction of the human hand in the photo. Nice.
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 06/13/2005 07:22:46 AM
Wonderful camp robber, only this that might bring your shot down to much space above the bird. I like it though
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 06/13/2005 12:59:38 AM
lucky, thats cool how they land in your hands like that
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