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Evening Flight
Evening Flight
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Challenge: Purple II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Johnson City, New York
Date: Sep 23, 2006
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500th sec
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 24, 2006

 Crop, selective color, hue/sat, shadow/hilite

Post challenge: Thanks for the great comments. Huge flock of what I think are starlings have been hanging around. They are not easy to shoot though, have to be the right distance away, and there is a lot of clutter here so hard to get a good background.

Statistics
Place: 41 out of 290
Avg (all users): 6.0153
Avg (commenters): 7.0625
Avg (participants): 5.7813
Avg (non-participants): 6.1506
Views since voting: 921
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 262
Comments: 22
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 10/25/2006 09:13:54 PM
agreed. WAY underrated. I've often seen large flocks of birds in the evening and wondered how I would get a nice shot of them.

Starlings used to be my favorite in Canada, but I've seen some pretty impressive other birds around here too. Tough to light egrets evenly though because they don't fly so close...

This is excellent technically, but I like how - without a definitive subject - the picture has its own personality with the gradient of the sky and just the sheer complexity of shapes.

Certainly a photo in a class of its own... Ok, maybe 'photo without a subject'... :)
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 10/04/2006 10:45:46 AM
WOW!!!!! This is so unique and striking!!! Your composition is so perfect with the tip of the tree in the corner. I agree with Hotpasta, this is way wayyyyy underrated!!!!

Awesome photo!

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 10/04/2006 03:14:41 AM
great image that should have finished higher
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/03/2006 12:38:43 AM
Wow, I would love to see this larger and uncompressed. It looks like it was munched by Save for Web. But seriously, wow... great shot!
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 10/02/2006 06:30:26 PM
Awesome.
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 10/02/2006 08:21:47 AM
Cool!
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 10/01/2006 01:49:43 PM
Controlled chaos. Well done.
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 10/01/2006 11:03:16 AM
Whish I could see that!
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 09/30/2006 01:37:36 PM
amazing!
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 09/30/2006 05:25:00 AM
Dang...run for cover! Hooray for not flowers! Thanks for posting something different!
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 09/29/2006 09:06:02 PM
This is great!!!
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 09/29/2006 06:58:30 PM
Wow, amazing shot you really captured the moment!
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 09/29/2006 04:49:17 PM
WOW!! So cool!
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 09/28/2006 10:26:21 AM
Wow! I know you cropped this to emphasize the vast number of birds - I'm not certain that I like the tree even though I realize it gives perspective.
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 09/28/2006 08:57:36 AM
I love this image....awesome 9
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 09/28/2006 12:19:48 AM
I didn't expect to love this, but i do. Wonderful abstract patterns of flight worthy of analysis by John Nash!
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 09/28/2006 12:01:25 AM
You'll probably get lots of comments about oversharpening and too much noise but I like this one.
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 09/27/2006 11:41:38 PM
Wow!
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 09/27/2006 01:35:54 PM
Original.
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 09/27/2006 08:04:26 AM
WOW!!
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 09/27/2006 01:45:03 AM
Very cool capture.
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 09/27/2006 12:41:54 AM
what an abstract !!! 7
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