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CRY BABY
CRY BABY
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Challenge: Portrait Of A Wild Bird (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 500mm f/4.0L IS USM
Location: conowingo Md.
Date: Dec 27, 2009
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Dec 27, 2009

 taken at 700 mm

[Jan. 2nd, 2010 08:18:32 AM]

Well it seems at least a few people don't believe this is a photo of a WILD bird! I can assure you that it is in fact wild it was perched in a tree about 20 feet from the ground.

shot of it with mom or dad and it was perched it the tree where the woman on the right is looking

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 138
Avg (all users): 6.8083
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.6912
Avg (non-participants): 6.8720
Views since voting: 2046
Views during voting: 382
Votes: 193
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 01/04/2010 11:37:07 AM
Very nice. I assume this was taken near the Conowingo Dam? Is there a good viewing area up there? I live in Bel Air and have honestly never explored Conowingo photographically. I'm thinking that I should probably do it.
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 01/04/2010 11:19:19 AM
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
Great shot - got an 8 from me (couldn't understand the OOF foreground bit or it would have been more). Deserves better than 14th - excellent work.
the oof foreground was the crop--to a portrait aspect tried all to get rid of it but? edit for fat fingers

Message edited by author 2010-01-04 11:20:22.
 01/04/2010 10:14:05 AM
Great shot - got an 8 from me (couldn't understand the OOF foreground bit or it would have been more). Deserves better than 14th - excellent work.
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 01/04/2010 08:40:31 AM
Nice finish dad!! Congrats on a new PB! :)
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 01/04/2010 04:51:30 AM
Congrats on the new PB and a great image!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/03/2010 11:00:02 PM
nice feather detail...well done
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 01/03/2010 04:34:40 PM
Very nice close-up with good detail and sharpness.
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 01/02/2010 03:39:30 AM
A wild bird? You can get very close in your neck of the woods! For a photo of a wild bird tis is incredible, and fairly impressive of a captive one too.
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 01/01/2010 08:48:39 AM
Superb shot, i love raptor pictures. Brilliant focus on the eye and great pose from the bird.
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 01/01/2010 08:29:07 AM
Outstanding!!
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 12/31/2009 07:16:17 PM
Extraordinary detail. Think I would have cropped out the few OOF bits in the foreground.
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 12/30/2009 05:59:26 PM
Very cool!
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 12/30/2009 03:27:44 PM
Oh my, look at that beautiful face, great job, one of my fav's....10
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 12/30/2009 12:18:10 PM
I don't think you would lose anything by cropping the distracting foreground blur. I think I'd go for more of a square and crop some of the sky too. Great capture and very nice detail.
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 12/29/2009 08:43:34 PM
I'd love to see the lens that captured this awesome shot! Or you were very lucky and the bird let you get real close, hehe One of the best of the challenge.
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 12/28/2009 10:44:54 PM
Nice shot... I will score as though this is a wild bird, however, I would really like to see a context shot here, as there is no way for us to verify that this isn't tethered to a post.

Are you the Zohar? If not, you have pleased the Zohar! (See forum for more information)
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 12/28/2009 10:37:30 PM
Nice close-up with some nice crisp detail...the cry elevates the interest to the next level. Nicely done!
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 12/28/2009 07:56:50 PM
Great clarity and crispness. Nice work on getting such a deep DOF. What an incredible capture for being in the wild.
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 12/28/2009 02:45:48 PM
WOW wonderful, amazing.
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 12/28/2009 08:40:54 AM
Awesome-ten
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 12/28/2009 08:25:28 AM
Good
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 12/28/2009 12:20:36 AM
crisp focus...nice 8
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