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#138 Creatures, Great and Small
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1st - mbbin2: The Meeting Pipe
2nd - wrosenthal: Puppy Love
3rd - SteveBee: Draft Horse Pulling Competition
4th - Edward: Elephant Seals
5th - rjsquire: Grace
6th - ysal: White Crowned Sparrow
7th - pm32: Yellow Bug
8th - Old Finn:
8th - gealexander: Small Creature -- Great Color
10th - tvsometime: Curious
11th - ehume: Misha -- Corgi puppy
11th - Peanut : Lizard
13th - babysister: Not even a half giraffe!
14th - davep56: Rocking Robin
15th - LaRee: The Falcon's Duck Dinner
16th - Lo: Proud Heritage
17th - Mepo: Chickadee
18th - forkcandles : LOOK OUT
19th - simken: Move over Darling!
20th - Ginny: Mavis
21st - cookiejar: Whoo are you looking at?
22nd - mrsawyer: Sorry to Bother You!
23rd - vonjon: Busy Bees
24th - dougster: Treed
25th - Una: Hi there!
Whoo are you looking at?
©2014 cookiejar
Panasonic DMC-FZ7
21st
place,
26
points
1/400s
,
f7.1
,
ISO 400
,
127mm
,
Normal Program
,
Pattern
,
no flash
Post-Processing:
Crop, lightened shadow, darkened highlights and healing brush on background distractions. Resize for entry.
Extra Info:
Barn Owl, taken at a Birds of Prey demonstration.
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cookiejar
Feb 17, 2014
I will post the original photo mrsawyer. It was taken at full zoom from the crowd, using a tripod. the speed was 1/400 because I was taking shots of birds in flight. The day was very bright. I did use a global shadow brighten in Photoshop. I also cloned out hats from the crowd in the background.
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Lo
Feb 17, 2014
Nicely cropped, and those eyes sure grab your attention. It's too bad that the pp has caused so much noise in the background.
babysister
Feb 15, 2014
A lovely photo of the owl, only marred by the noisy background. However still one of my favourites.
Jade O.
Feb 15, 2014
Nice bird. A little lacking in sharpness - the colour splotching on the glove tells me something is technically amiss. Maybe better at ISO100?
mrsawyer
Feb 14, 2014
I was almost totally distracted by the big beautiful eyes! Then I noticed what seemed to be a pattern on the glove. Then I noticed what seemed to be a similar pattern on the foliage. I think the pattern is noise in what were shadows. Sorry if I am incorrect! Please post your unprocessed version in the outtakes after voting ends.
KJW
Feb 14, 2014
Not sure if you were intending on giving your shot a look of being what appears to me as a painting or if that conditions were pretty bad causing so much processing & noise. Like the look on the owl, those big wide open eyes.
LaRee
Feb 13, 2014
I think I would have preferred the shadows to be darker. The bird is what is important but the leaves and glove look abnormally lightened. Was it a global shadow brighten?
forkcandles
Feb 13, 2014
the eyes get you in this picture. your crop could have been tighter to emphases the bird and not the surrounds and glove
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