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Challenge: Darkness II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Birds
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: May 5, 2009
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Emotive, Birds
Date Uploaded: May 5, 2009
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For some reason I was really drawn to do a dark entry instead of a light one this week. Could be the unending rain!
This is a Mourning Dove on my deck railing. Late afternoon, and yes, raining. The background was actually green but I shifted it to blue for a moodier image.
PP - converted from RAW, cropped a bit, white balance, 2nd layer (Gaussian blur, merged in multiply mode), dodged dove's eye and a little of her underside, colored greenish reflections on her brown/peachy, 3rd layer (shifted hue into blues, erased dove from that layer, merged), decreased gamma and increased contrast, desaturated deck railing a bit, touched up background, resized, sharpened with noise reduction, hand sharpened a fuzzy bit. |
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05/13/2009 04:25:05 AM |
| This is so under rated!!..lovely image. Congrats from one of your twelve 7's. |
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05/12/2009 09:11:28 PM |
| Good lighting and background. Subject looks a little OOF to me. |
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05/07/2009 08:09:49 PM |
| The soft focus and lack of precise detail hurt this image which would have been a very natural entry into the challenge. A little more precision would have made this a naturalists dream as the expression on the dove is very complimentary to the nature of the challenge. |
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05/06/2009 09:51:50 AM |
| Love the background. I think this is one that needs to be turned to make the line level (the sill upon which he's sitting). |
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05/06/2009 01:27:42 AM |
| i love the blue light but i wish it were a little sharper |
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