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The Clan of the Cave Owl
The Clan of the Cave Owl
hahn23


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Challenge: Book Cover (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM
Location: Estes Park, CO
Date: May 30, 2015
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125s
Date Uploaded: May 30, 2015

 Great-horned owl guarding the female and owlets below.

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Place: 51 out of 65
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Canon EOS R5 Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/07/2015 12:12:49 PM
well hid owl
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 06/06/2015 10:29:33 PM
Ayla, banished from her adopted Clan, must survive by herself. With only the help of a wise old bird, she ignores all the rules but her own and forms a Clan of One.
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Sony Alpha a7R V
Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM
 06/05/2015 03:35:34 PM
this is a great picture of that owl but this way it doesn't work as a book cover. The words are hard to read - maybe put the owl in a smaller frame and place it in the middle with title and author's name in a monochrome area
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Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 06/01/2015 10:05:03 AM
Perfect photo for this. I would like to see a bit more font work done. Really hard to read the text.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/01/2015 02:12:37 AM
I am a HUGE fan of the "Earth's Children" series, so I really, really wanted to love your book cover.

Sadly, though, I can't. It is very difficult to look at.

I find that the photo itself is harsh (although the owl is a real stunner!), but then having so many different bits and pieces of font, in different colours, none of them standing out properly from the background all just add up to something I can't enjoy viewing.

I love the owl, I like the composition. Your choices of text (i.e. the words you used) were rather good - maybe with some different processing and a lot of font-tweaking this could turn into a great cover.
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