Challenge: Warm Colors III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa
Date: Aug 10, 2013
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/640s
Galleries: Blur, Birds
Date Uploaded: Aug 12, 2013
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It is carrying nesting material ripped from the reeds.
9x 4's - seriously Did Not Meet Challenge? 30x (below average (5.5) x5's)? This was taken at 5pm when African light is at it's warmest, known in the photographic world as "Golden Light"...
I did capture the entire bird in frame, not easy to do at the speed at which it was travelling and in a 450mm f/4 equivalent. However I felt it was lost in the DPC archaic 800px picture size so cropped it tighter with, I felt, a better balance. Here's the sequence, shot individually, deliberately timed shutter presses, not at High FPS.
    
If the tight crop comments/votes is what made this image sink from 6.2 just at rollover to 5.8 then I am at a loss with partisan DPC voters. I have tried both approaches in the past; tight crop and as shot (see thumbnail #1 above). Both styles have gotten last minute comments and I believe tied in to the subsequent drop in votes.
Despite a contrast and colour tweak and a tight crop this is "as shot" in the wild at a hide for 2 hours, sore bums and boredom waiting for something to happen in a cold bird hide mid winter. No feeders, not a zoo or a local urban lake, no tricks, no massive Photoshop rescue.
But alas the image doesn't convey any photographic effort right? What about experience?
And Langdon, it would be nice to have a "Wildlife" Category. Yep I know, prove the image was taken in the true wild right?
Here's my challenge; Recreate this WILDlife image, with panning, in motion, with the correct shutter speed on SHUTTER PRIORITY (S, Tv) only, to get a steady sharp head and blur in the wings AND blur on the water drops! I also want to see the the before and after (RAW) unedited images in numeric order to see if you burst FPS or were in single shot mode...
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