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Pet Cockatoo
Pet Cockatoo
diablo2097


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Challenge: Pet Portrait II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Warrandyte, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Dec 9, 2006
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 9, 2006

 Ok, so i lied... its not really my pet :P ... Shot was taken at a restaurant where they had bird feeders around with lots of cockatoos, so i quickly went home, got my camera, and came back :P. Was a tough choice between two shots, but i ended up using this one after discussing it with Pedro and wonderbread. Thank you guys for all your help.

PP
- Raw conversion with crop, and exposure adjustment
- NoiseNinja
- Clone out spots near his mouth, and cleaned up feathers as much as possible
- shadow/highlight to bring in overexposed bits
- HSL to pop background
- selective colour to change BG colour
- more selective Noiseninja
- selective smart sharpen
- more dodging on face
- then edge burning as taught by wonderbread :)
- resize for DPC

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 378
Avg (all users): 6.2738
Avg (commenters): 7.3000
Avg (participants): 6.0992
Avg (non-participants): 6.4470
Views since voting: 1044
Views during voting: 324
Votes: 263
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 05/24/2007 09:03:21 AM
lol oops... shhh... don't tell anyone eschelar :P

fixed
 05/22/2007 10:16:43 AM
Interesting how this ended up in the Food and drink category... something you aren't telling us?
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 12/24/2006 10:28:09 PM
I see that it took a lot of steps to get this image to look so good. This looks like "Snappy" my lesser sulphur crested cocatoo.. I like the whole image just as you have posted it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/19/2006 09:27:46 PM
Very nice composition!
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 12/17/2006 07:27:06 PM
Very clear, good frame good coloring.
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 12/16/2006 10:52:05 PM
6 - Not sure that the colors (especially in the 'comb') are being complemented by the (nice) background in this shot - but does grow on you. Visually, just seems too much empty space on the right, perhaps more of a square frame may have balanced that out. Also (and apologies if wrong), looks somewhat 'neat imaged'.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2006 08:24:47 AM
Very nice capture!
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 12/15/2006 11:41:01 AM
great composition and colors. very striking. 8
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 12/14/2006 11:31:03 PM
Elegant!
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 12/14/2006 08:52:37 AM
Beautiful. Excellent detail and I love the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2006 11:16:47 PM
Great lighting, focus, and composition. The background washed colors look good and the catchlights in the eyes are great.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2006 09:46:36 PM
really well done ... love the bokeh in teh BG ... framing is perfect ...
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 12/13/2006 01:06:56 PM
great photo - wonderful use of bokeh to highlight the cockatoo
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 12/13/2006 02:09:21 AM
Nice one, expecially the DOF.....
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