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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
Location: invercargill
Date: Jan 28, 2009
Aperture: 6.7
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Mar 9, 2009

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Statistics
Place: 1042 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 4.5611
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.5355
Avg (non-participants): 4.7013
Views since voting: 524
Views during voting: 625
Votes: 499
Comments: 49
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/17/2009 04:51:35 PM
Oh cool, reminds me of the movie. Nice job.
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 03/17/2009 12:52:03 PM
I love this, the black and white works really well and I love the motion blur of the wings when they're flying.
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 03/17/2009 07:10:53 AM
Lovely creative silhouetted image.
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 03/17/2009 01:30:13 AM
Nice shot. Love it that you caught a couple of them still coming in to land.
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 03/16/2009 10:35:19 PM
Birds are interesting and motion is nice.
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 03/16/2009 10:43:30 AM
Good catch of all of those birds, with one or two coming in for a landing. A faster shutter speed catching frozen wings "may" have been nice. I see some layering in the clouds. Maybe you reduced the quality of the jpg too much.
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 03/16/2009 07:52:25 AM
pretty nice and simple , what i dont like is panoramatic format coz i lack some space at the bottom and its seems to be a bit unsharp too... i give just four sorry

regards ;D
brano
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 03/16/2009 03:58:16 AM
neat shot
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 03/16/2009 02:40:50 AM
Well captured and presented. Strong contrast makes the image.
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 03/15/2009 08:42:21 PM
Could be a still from Hitchcock's movie, "The Birds."
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 03/15/2009 07:17:57 PM
Interesting take of so many models. I would like to see this in color.
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 03/15/2009 06:40:59 PM
A neat capture. Makes me think a little bit about the book 'The Birds' though. :P
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 03/15/2009 03:57:18 PM
Crop is a little cramped. Whites are lost.
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 03/15/2009 10:59:16 AM
Interesting shot, nice crop.
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 03/15/2009 10:18:29 AM
That's a lot of birds, a pretty cool silhouette. There are some weird banding issues in the sky though.
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 03/15/2009 09:30:11 AM
I like the bird flying in from the right and the one fluttering close to center. I'm not sure I care for the photo overall though. I think if you had cropped the darkest part of the tree/bush on the left I would have scored it higher
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 03/15/2009 12:05:12 AM
Seems over processed, halos around some of the birds
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 03/14/2009 07:30:30 PM
like the ones caught in flight, interesting
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 03/14/2009 07:28:59 PM
The two coming in for a landing add interest to this shot. I especially like the one with its tail spread out.
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 03/14/2009 06:34:21 PM
i miss some details here
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 03/14/2009 04:52:45 PM
Well captured.
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 03/14/2009 03:34:27 PM
They almost look like fruit! I like the silhouettes but feel the crop is too tight.
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 03/14/2009 12:37:43 PM
interesting silhoutte, but a little too messy in overall composition. the pair of birds coming in to land adds to the image though,
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 03/14/2009 10:59:32 AM
The birds blend in to the tree branches very well.
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 03/13/2009 11:21:38 PM
Very Hitchcock! Excellent! 8
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 03/13/2009 09:16:35 PM
The birds that are flying add a nice touch.
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 03/13/2009 08:38:40 PM
great choice of b&w and I like your crop
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 03/13/2009 03:01:20 PM
sharpening halos detract here IMO
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 03/13/2009 10:03:20 AM
That's a lot of birds. Beautiful how the one on the right is going to land.
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 03/13/2009 08:02:48 AM
great motion from the bird on the right
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 03/13/2009 03:32:31 AM
Great Concept, Well Done photo buddy
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 03/12/2009 09:19:04 PM
Good shot. Not sure about the crop.
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 03/12/2009 07:33:09 PM
Definitely...birds.
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 03/12/2009 07:24:19 PM
nice work on the silhouette
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 03/12/2009 05:41:26 PM
a bit too dark
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 03/12/2009 11:47:06 AM
Nice silouette
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 03/12/2009 10:36:32 AM
I like the silhouettes.
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 03/11/2009 07:28:49 PM
Nice B&W.
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 03/11/2009 06:56:52 PM
this shot needs more clarity...the birds are like little brown blobs on the branches
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 03/11/2009 05:45:34 PM
I like the variety of action in these birds.
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 03/11/2009 04:23:32 PM
i love the composition but feel like it could do without the birdless tree on the right
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 03/11/2009 03:07:21 PM
the crop is too tight, making the shot too busy.
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 03/11/2009 02:15:32 PM
very nice -8
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 03/11/2009 11:54:15 AM
I love the birds in motion! the image for some reason makes we want to count the birds!
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 03/11/2009 08:28:34 AM
so differentr i like the solo bird
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 03/11/2009 08:23:19 AM
Not enough focus.
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 03/11/2009 06:29:06 AM
This is a good subject with plenty of potential. I think that the crop is perhaps too narrow and looses some effect as a result. Good luck. 5.
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 03/11/2009 05:58:50 AM
love how the little guy on the right is just coming in for a landing
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 03/11/2009 05:27:12 AM
good subject, but has some technical flaws: banding in the sky and halos from sharpening. the aspect ratio is disharmonic; might have helped to crop off the tree at left and add contrast.
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