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Primal Wrath
Primal Wrath
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Challenge: 7 Deadly Sins III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Location: Philadelphia Zoo
Date: Jun 20, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/20s
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2008

 When I saw these challenges the first thought that entered my mind was anthropomorphism. So off to the zoo I went. My choices were endless, there was the peacock for pride or the hippo for gluttony, but I feared they would have been overdone. I looked for a sloth but couldn't find one (perhaps they didn't have one). Then I saw this panther running back and forth across his (or her) enclosure it hit me.... WRATH!!!

I took a bunch of sharp shots and a few panned shots. The panned shots had so much more emotion in them that I ultimately went with one. Granted it doesn't have the sharp vibrant colorful pop that appears to dominate the front page, but alas, I really like it. Hopefully it will score well.

Raw Formatting:
Cropped
Fill Black
Recovery
Clarity
Contrast
Exposure
Crop

Photoshop:
Resize
Border
Sharpen Edges

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 89
Avg (all users): 4.7520
Avg (commenters): 5.1250
Avg (participants): 4.1739
Avg (non-participants): 4.8117
Views since voting: 1138
Views during voting: 396
Votes: 246
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 07/03/2008 10:05:14 AM
This is totally awesome!! It really brings across the intense e/motion - absolutely love this. Go figure it would have scored low. Hope you get a peer ribbon or something.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/01/2008 09:55:03 PM
The blur is interesting but the shot seems to me to shoehorned into the challenge.
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 07/01/2008 03:04:34 PM
To my taste: too much blur (guessing there was also glass or fence wire between you and the jaguar) and detail lost in the fur. These type of shots are not easy to come out nice. Good luck!
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 06/30/2008 10:33:59 PM
Wow! I hope this was at the zoo.
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 06/30/2008 08:45:55 PM
really nice shot. terrific movement. high scores here. perhaps a bit darker, more contrast/
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 06/30/2008 12:13:07 PM
Cool shot, but it's kind of flat. Not sure how much you processed this, but it looks like some leves wirk could have created a little more pop, while still ekeeping the blurry effect.
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 06/26/2008 06:50:00 PM
Great sense of emotion and energy
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 06/25/2008 02:17:12 PM
Interesting motion capture.
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 06/25/2008 01:25:40 AM
COOL!!!
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