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New Born, Yet to Fly
New Born, Yet to Fly
BrianR


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wildlife IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Arkarra Lagoons, Hervey Bay,Quenland Australia.
Date: Oct 18, 2008
Aperture: 14.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Animals, Birds
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2008

 This young long necked Cormorant was hatched in a hole at the end of the old tree in the Arkarra lagoons in the suburb of Dundowran Hervey Bay, Shortly after taking this shot fell into the water and swam around and had to waddle out back onto the tree. Took some of the parent bird feeding but liked this shot for the challenge.

Opened in Lightroom 1.4.1
Color toned & cropped.

CS3
Channel Mix
Selective Color
Ni
Smart Sharpen
Resize.

Have uploaded out takes to see the story.

Feeding
In The Water
Before Processing

Thanks for the comments, I find it hard to see why this only scored 5.1 when I look through the results..

Statistics
Place: 124 out of 159
Avg (all users): 5.1728
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9855
Avg (non-participants): 5.2787
Views since voting: 763
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 191
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/28/2008 12:25:19 PM
This shot STILL cracks me up! The poor little birdie doesn't know what to do with all these ginormous parts attached to him! I might've tried to put him a little less dead centre but I really can't suggest any way to improve the pp, it looks great to me.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/23/2008 09:37:30 PM
Funny looking bird. Took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at.
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 10/21/2008 08:32:03 PM
That is very cute (what on earth is it???), but on my screen it looks as though you've pumped the blue up a little too far, so it loses detail on the ....bird...., and the water looks a little surreal
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 10/21/2008 03:22:05 PM
What an odd looking bag of bits - what is it ??
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 10/21/2008 08:30:38 AM
I don't know this water bird at all - very strange looking with that large crop and small head. looking forward to finding which country it was taken in.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2008 02:01:33 PM
Captvating colors and sharpness.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2008 12:40:57 PM
im not even sure what im looking at here. a purple ostrich thing?
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 10/20/2008 11:00:56 AM
OMG too fricking funny, those huge wings and feet on that teeny little head and chest! 9 for a public lol!
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 10/20/2008 08:56:49 AM
What a big body for such a little head! Sharp and clear - nice image.
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