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07/11/2007 12:17:37 PM |
| Just stumbled across this image, it is quite beautiful! Love the lighting (lower sun?) and vibrant colors... plus I just like the subject -- I've never seen such a cute bird with such a big head :-) |
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01/25/2007 03:19:22 AM |
This is so Austalian, and definately one of my favorite birds.....
I love the DOF in the background and so colorful..... |
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01/24/2007 11:54:27 PM |
| that's quite a find. nice work. |
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01/24/2007 07:22:48 PM |
| I love these birds - so similar to the kingfishers in South Africa. Well composed photograph with perfect DOF. |
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01/24/2007 07:52:38 AM |
| A lovely photo but I feel the colour saturation is slightly 'unreal' and a catchlight created by fill in flash would have brightened the eye a little. |
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01/23/2007 07:46:05 PM |
| the color of the light is appealing in this, detail is pleasant, & I like what you did w/the background...9 |
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01/23/2007 05:48:01 PM |
These birds are so darned cute and love their name.
This image could have done a lot better in my opinion, had the background not been so harsh and high in contrast, and some detail brought out of the eye.
I played a little with it in Photoshop just out of curiosity and applied a brown toned black & white layer to the image overall, did edit, fade, and watched until I was able to get a slightly toned, but desaturated look to the background, then erased back in the bird and the main branch. I did a strong USM sharpening of the bird and main branch and adjusted the levels in the eye , then added some black to the reds (selective colors adjustments)in the branch.
Feel free to PM me for a URL where I put it (in my workshop folder). |
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01/23/2007 07:53:38 AM |
| Attractive composition and lighting. |
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01/19/2007 09:40:58 PM |
| great shot love the DOF 9 |
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01/19/2007 08:14:22 PM |
| I would have cropped the bottom part out. I would have loved to see more details of that beautiful bird. |
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01/19/2007 07:12:29 PM |
| Great close-up! Love the bokeh background! |
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01/19/2007 11:48:53 AM |
| great capture, nice pp and colors. |
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01/17/2007 04:49:02 PM |
Could use some dodging around the eye and face, and some darkening of the bright background areas.
Nice catch! |
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01/13/2007 04:57:47 PM |
| Great catch but it looks a bit over saturated. |
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01/13/2007 03:35:06 PM |
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01/12/2007 05:07:36 PM |
| a wonderful australiana type image...great exposure and nice dof...good composition...nice |
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01/12/2007 11:38:55 AM |
| BG hightlights are really bright, closer crop might help. |
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01/12/2007 07:59:28 AM |
| funny bird , good catch ... colors are very nice, DOF looks strange :-) |
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01/12/2007 03:42:44 AM |
| oversaturateed & slightly more sharp |
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01/12/2007 01:45:00 AM |
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