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Copyright: Josh Crozier (Humanist) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 52 W: 11 N: 145] (541)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-12-28
Categories: Birds
Camera: Cannon EOS Rebel XTi, Canon 75-300mm 4.5-5.6 USM III
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/500 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Final Version, Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-01-02 9:29
Viewed: 645
Points: 7
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Taken today in the University of Guelph Arboretum. Since I have learned that my 75-300 is not sharp enough to allow cropping, I camped out for a very long time int he cold today until I could get close enough to fill the frame with this beauty.

The University of Guelph's Arboretum webpage has some great bird information here.

PP: I worked with curves to massage the colour and I cloned out one area of pure white that was very distracting to the eye. I then just resized and sharpened enough to counter the effects of resizing.

Re-post info: I went back to address comments of sharpness and adjustmed my workflow to include carefull capture (RAW) sharpening and better anti-noise work. I had snapped two photos within one second, and the other included the tail. So I spliced the two photos together to show the whole bird. I will be curious to see whether people find this photo better after I addressed concerns or whether my poor lens just totalled the photo :)

All comments (even negative!) are very welcome... I really need to figure out my workflow and lens situation.
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Hi Josh,
This is looking good. Nice and sharp, great POV/pose, good DOF with blurred BG. Congrats on your second place win in the photo contest. TFS
Richard

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  • pvs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1159 W: 255 N: 2639] (11925)
  • [2008-01-02 10:47]
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Hi Josh,

With regards to the sharpness you managed to improve this capture a lot,colors and BG are great,tfs

Paul

Josh, Interesting bird in an interesting composition. Well made.

- Murali Santhanam

Jammer dat je het puntje van de staart mist.

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