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Good Looking Bird
Good Looking Bird
smyk


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Good (Basic Editing*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: Lazienki, Warsaw
Date: Feb 4, 2007
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2007

 I stood around in the cold for 1.5 hours to get a nice shot of this damn bird. They only open up their tails when they feel like it (duh) and this guys only decided to show off after and hour and for only 10 minutes. I took a whole slew of shots but this one was the best. I had a hard time getting a nice shot because the lighting was pretty bad and for some reason my shutter speed was very slow most of the time. Here it was 1/250 which is great, but other shots it was at 1/50 or so so motion blur was prominant.

Anyways, hope you guys like it. I really like how the post processing brought out the "eyes" and the "hairs" (?) of the feathers.

in RAW:
levels increase
vibrance decrease
saturation upped

CS2

resize and unsharpen mask (man it does wonders!) + add border

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I for one don't think the DOF is off. I think the shollow DOF gives it a very nice effect :)

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 195
Avg (all users): 6.2574
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 6.0704
Avg (non-participants): 6.3373
Views since voting: 1191
Views during voting: 302
Votes: 237
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/15/2007 09:55:57 PM
Pimp shit yo!
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 02/14/2007 12:50:53 PM
Great shot Chris, I thought I was gonna see this is in the top 10...
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 02/14/2007 06:26:56 AM
Great going, Chris. Super shot (WTG Outcasts!!;-)
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 02/14/2007 01:14:36 AM
Congrats on your top 20 finish!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/12/2007 07:37:32 AM
I agree... beautiful..
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 02/12/2007 06:27:31 AM
what a good display, very nice
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 02/11/2007 12:01:46 PM
Ace title.
Very nice shot. Love the subtle highlighting in the tail feathers, and the soft light to the face.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2007 10:05:00 AM
details are good, hope you can make it a little bit brighter
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2007 10:13:48 PM
DOF seems a little off. Nice color though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2007 11:34:27 AM
nice image peecocks are very colourful animals
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2007 11:13:27 AM
I love this photo! Great lighting, and variation of colors.
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 02/08/2007 12:17:36 AM
And so colorful, nice composition
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 02/07/2007 03:34:07 PM
Wonderful Capture...but I would have liked a better title to match the gorgeousness of the bird.
8 From me.
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