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Lonely Feather
Lonely Feather
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Challenge: Yellow III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Kodak DX7590
Location: my living room in Lansing, MI.
Date: Apr 2, 2006
Aperture: f5.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 8 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Traditional Art
Date Uploaded: Apr 2, 2006

 Well, as usual, I don't know about this one :-) I'm sure I'll get hammered like normal. I must be a glutton for punishment :-) I guess I just have a quirky taste. Like most of my stuff, there is just sometimes this little pocket of folks that dig it, and I suppose that is what fuels my fire. So like I always say, if a couple of people dig it, than I'm happy :-) Besides, I gotta get some use out of these stupid feathers I bought for the 'Pick 2' challenge! hehehe

So it is a yellow feather on a black background. Did a long exposure in the dark and then 'painted with light', using an ordinary flashlight. In ps-cropped, noise reduction, a little bit of healing brush, an overlay layer with the opacity dropped, a selective color adj. and a hue/sat adj. I actually originally had a long crop, then got a notion and tried the square, thought it looked better so went with that.

I don't normally ask for a critique, but I would like one on this shot. Compositionally, and the actual concept, this is what I was going for. I would really like to know what technically and lighting wise, and possibly post processing wise I could of done differently/better to improve this.

Thanks for checking out my pic :-)

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Canon R50
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
04/04/2006 01:20:57 PM
Interesting lighting, but I'm not really drawn to this being yellow
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 04/03/2006 06:07:57 PM
Cool feather. Nice framing. Crease in the fabric is a bit distracting, but overall very nice.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 04/03/2006 02:18:07 AM
What kind of feather is that? Beautiful photo... can't offer suggestions, it's perfect.:)
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