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Challenge: Free Study XVII (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Kodak EasyShare V610
Location: Instituto Agronômico, Campinas, Sp, Brazil
Date: Aug 11, 2007
Aperture: F4,9
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/630s
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 11, 2007

Crop
Levels
Selected the eyes
Saturation + 50
Inverse selection
Saturation -50
Unsharp Pask - 3.0 Pixels/30%

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Place: 302 out of 452
Avg (all users): 5.1895
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 5.0843
Avg (non-participants): 5.3143
Views since voting: 917
Views during voting: 212
Votes: 153
Comments: 7
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08/23/2007 09:53:00 AM
Greetings from the critique club :)

Well first off, congrats on your new personal best score, for now at least! I am kindof impressed you got a pretty respectable "wildlife" shot with a p&s camera. However, these photos always come out better if they are taken with a camera with a bigger sensor, like DSLR and a pretty long lens. Why? I feel the biggest fault with this image is the fact that the Owl pretty much totally blends in with the backround and a DSLR and long lens with a big aperture would have solved that problem by just taking the backround totally out of focus.

I basically 100% agree with stevenov and digifotojo´s comments. I do like the desaturated look and use it often and the eyes look pretty cool so I would just say that you need a better camera/lens if you are going to focus on this type of photography in the future :)

I also feel that the even lighting of the shot kindof makes my eyes wander towards the edges of the shot, I think this photo would have benefited with either some slightly increased vignetting or a frame or possibly both.

Other than that, a pretty decent shot but there are just too many bird photos already here at DPC that if you want to do them and score well, you both need perfect technically photos (bird in focus, backround out of focus) and preferrably something extraordinary going on in the shot, don´t know what that could be but preferrably the Owl doing something interesting, not just sitting there.

Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/14/2007 11:16:03 PM
This is AWESOME!
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08/14/2007 06:53:40 PM
Nice use of color.
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08/14/2007 04:17:33 PM
Would be good if the subject of the challenge was camouflage. Subject hard to distinguish from the background.
08/14/2007 01:38:41 AM
Cute. Unfortunately, the background vies with the owl. Better color/contrast would have helped.
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08/13/2007 12:41:48 PM
Like the way the owl pops out at you
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08/13/2007 09:33:58 AM
Very well done with the eyes...
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