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Challenge: Action Shot (Advanced Editing I*)
Camera: Kodak DC4800
Location: Florida
Date: Jan 1, 2004
ISO: 100
Galleries: Animals, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 4, 2004

 Two Sandhill Cranes on the lake shore where I live, were performing. I had my iso set at 100. Not sure what the other info is. I just got a new computer and don't yet have a program to read exif. I'm going to go download Irfan View now, at the 11th hour.
In post-processing I increased brightness and contrast a bit, and dodged a little light onto the wings. I also added a little saturation to the red crowns, and cloned out a small sprig of bougainvillea that overlapped the male Crane.
I applied USM.

Statistics
Place: 81 out of 97
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Avg (commenters): 4.3571
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Views since voting: 1063
Votes: 162
Comments: 15
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01/11/2004 02:33:47 PM
nice composition...very romantic
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 01/11/2004 02:03:52 PM
Unfortunately, as the sun is behind them, there seems to be little detail on the birds themselves and the branch in the top right hand corner draws my eye away from what the main focus of the shot should be (the birds).
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 01/11/2004 09:11:50 AM
You've lost too much detail in your main subjects.
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 01/10/2004 09:47:35 AM
I think this is great, maybe a bit over sharpened and too contrasty for instance, around the wings. I like the tree and the color similarity.
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 01/08/2004 10:31:25 PM
Nice action
Its a shame its not cropped closer and a bit more detail in the birds although having said that it would not be very easy to do
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 01/08/2004 10:02:51 AM
Nice composition, a little over saturated.
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 01/08/2004 02:03:35 AM
It´s a bit grainy, perhaps it´s overprocessing. Furthermore, the lighting is very bad and the focus is very poor. Good luck in the future.
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 01/07/2004 03:03:09 PM
Great capture on the action; the birds seem kind of washed out compared to the flowers.
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 01/06/2004 10:46:39 PM
Seems a tad washed out.
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 01/06/2004 01:07:07 AM
What would be a great image suffers from excessive compression.
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 01/05/2004 03:47:21 PM
You must be in Australia..? Blooms and ?Cranes? mating. Cool shot.
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 01/05/2004 01:25:55 PM
I like the framing and action, but the shot looks a bit faded out.
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 01/05/2004 11:31:05 AM
seems a bit grainy and out of focus to me, maybe adjusting brightness and contrast could help a little, the colors seems a little flat. 5
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 01/05/2004 08:23:28 AM
Interesting action shot. Looks like they are arguing over who is 'alpha". I think I would have liked the shot better if you could have cropped in a little closer on the birds but I see they are already oversaturated and somewhat out of focus.
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 01/05/2004 05:53:51 AM
Interesting subject - the angle in this case doesn't feel quite right to me - I like full shadows. A little soft in focus.
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