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Pelican on the Halifax River
Pelican on the Halifax River
Alicia


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Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: Jan 1, 2008
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 3, 2008

Viewed: 724
Comments: 20
Favorites: 2 (view)

 Well, adding my blurb now after all your wonderful remarks seems silly. Perhaps I got all the comments because of the mystique - ha!

This photo was taken on a pier on the Halifax river. It was shot on the same day as the other pelican photos I recently posted.

The pelicans were very prolific that day. This particular one eyed me suspiciously, and I can't blame him. I inched closer and closer trying to get a photo with a decent background. He actually remained on the railing, so I got quite a few good ones.

The photo is cropped to cut out distracting buildings in the background. I applied a hefty dose of Lucis Art Wyeth followed by my customary smoother: Redfield Perfectum.

Since Lucis leaches color and Perfectum affects sharpness, I sharpened quite a bit, and applied an adjustment layer of levels to make the colors pop more. The pelican was in the shadow and looked dull against the sunny background. I also did an adjustment layer of Hue/Saturation by lightening a wee bit and increasing saturation to achieve that surreal/unreal look.

I think that's all - at least that's all I remember.





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 01/08/2008 12:39:36 AM
very similar to a shot by roz i like this one as well!
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 01/06/2008 01:16:48 PM
Another example of your great processing skills. I love the angle of this one too.
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 01/06/2008 12:16:43 PM
I love the effect you've achieved here. I looks as though you might need to give your sensor a quick blow over, though.
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 01/05/2008 05:52:14 AM
Alicia

This is simply fantastic and is one of my all time favourite's of your shots

love the fact that you have achieved a wonderful sharpness and detail on the pelican and that this then merges with a heavily processed background which is almost like an impressionist painting.

Great image
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 01/04/2008 11:44:48 PM
"More later" is all you've got? Hahhaha!

Looks like a picture on very textured paper. How cool!
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 01/04/2008 05:37:35 PM
Nice again, it works better on the bikes IMHO but really love the head of the pelican.
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 01/04/2008 04:49:03 PM
This is great, editing works perfectly.
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 01/04/2008 08:41:08 AM
OHHHH .. Fantastic.. very nice pp..
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 01/04/2008 06:18:54 AM
they are the coolest looking bird!
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 01/04/2008 01:23:10 AM
A very beautiful bird shot!
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 01/04/2008 12:30:15 AM
Totally Awesome..... and I LOVE your processing..... Adding this as a favorite along with your kangaroo shot and also you as a favorite..... I love this.....
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 01/03/2008 11:13:22 PM
cool processing. i especially like the feathers on his back and the colours in his face.
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 01/03/2008 10:28:24 PM
AWESOME!

waawaa (that's my teasing you for whining) about being cold in Florida! try minus 7degF here in the sticks of VT! I would LOVE to be on my way to Phoenix right now! (hint hint...:)
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 01/03/2008 10:00:03 PM
Pelican looks great, as do the water and land and buildings, but the sky looks like it may have suffered during the processing. How did you do this one and the kangaroo?
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 01/03/2008 09:40:16 PM
I'm not sure what to say. The wood grain looks superb in this. I know that you just got a new DSLR, so be watching out for those dust bunnies.
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 01/03/2008 08:52:46 PM
love your processing you are going to have tell us how you do it. I like the perspective you took this one at too.
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 01/03/2008 08:23:56 PM
Very cute.
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 01/03/2008 07:09:05 PM
Liquid sort of bird. Fun processing.
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 01/03/2008 06:18:06 PM
Its a giant pelican!!! run for your lives!!
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 01/03/2008 04:40:22 PM
I love this effect... beautiful!
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