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POLLY
POLLY
megryan


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Challenge: Complementary Colors II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: Home, AUSTRALIA
Date: Sep 30, 2005
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 3, 2005

 Not the best shot of this little girl I have taken but the blue and orange on her feathers make it fitting to enter this challenge. Lot of other adjustments I would've liked to make but am restricted with the basic editing rules. This was the best I could get it. Not sure if I like the composition either but was snapping away not thinking I could use them for this challenge....Just have to wait and see what happens, I was on the fence deciding if I would enter it !
Editing :
Minor adjustments to levels, colour balance and selective colour
Minor saturation adjustments
Reduce noise + very soft Gaussian blur layer to whole image. No cropping as is. No USM applied
resize

Statistics
Place: 86 out of 318
Avg (all users): 5.5000
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 5.1518
Avg (non-participants): 5.8250
Views since voting: 752
Views during voting: 287
Votes: 232
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/11/2005 12:17:56 AM
The colors are gorgeous. Great job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/10/2005 03:24:29 PM
The challenge title is "Complementary Colors" not "Colors of the Rainbow".
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/10/2005 09:26:16 AM
Unfortunately there are too many complementary pairs here to demonstrate the effect of one colour contrasted against its opposite. If the shot had shown more of the bird's orange eye and beak against the blue feathers of its head, and the photo been cropped to remove the green, yellow and red tones in the body, that would have been a better demonstration of complementary colour contrast.

Nevertheless, I love the colourful look in the bird's eye!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/09/2005 03:34:56 AM
Doesn't the challenge say TWO colors? You didn't do the more than two successfully enough for me to let you get away with it. But otherwise, I think its a pretty decent photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/08/2005 08:01:54 PM
Nice and clear. Not sure if you cropped this but would have been nice to leave more of the bird in the picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2005 10:59:47 PM
The comlimentary colours challenge is about

"use TWO complementary colors to compose your photograph"

This is more than 2 colours and whilst is is a fine photo, I cannot score it any higher than 3
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2005 06:37:19 PM
Cute bird and nature's colors at their best. 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2005 04:10:32 PM
Nice capture of a quick bird. the only distraction is the blue streak under his beak.
Very sharp focus and I love the colors
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2005 01:23:28 PM
Nice and clear.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2005 06:36:35 AM
GREAT cropping/editing, the eye color and placement really works for this pic! Well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2005 02:48:49 AM
I dont' like very much the crop
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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