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Braving the Weather
Braving the Weather
cpanaioti


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-01 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
Location: Elk Island National Park
Date: Jan 13, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2007

 Morning outing to one of my favourite places. The chickadees were out in force despite the weather, snowing, windy and about -20C.

Lightroom: ev +1.21, recovery +33, blacks +12
brightness + 72, contrast + 25
vibrance + 21

hilights +100, lights +100, darks -24, shadows +53
sharpen & de-noise 0

PS:highlight/shadow, highpass with overlay, curves, hue/sat (red -100, magenta -50, yellow +15)

Lightroom: crop slightly, sharpen +12, denoise +27, resize

Statistics
Place: 243 out of 559
Avg (all users): 5.7133
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.6803
Avg (non-participants): 5.8571
Views since voting: 1267
Views during voting: 205
Votes: 150
Comments: 14
Favorites: 4 (view)

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Olympus E-5
Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 08/17/2008 10:48:51 PM
This is a very nice capture of something rare. Shows how resilient these little critters are compared to us. I just keep going back to view it. I would never have thought these birds to be out and about at that temperature.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 08/16/2008 10:38:24 PM
Remind me next time I complain about the weather that I should count myself lucky, as I could weigh just 2 oz. and be clinging to a tree branch outside. Revisiting this, still a fave. Can't imagine what the voters were thinking, not to rate it higher.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 11/15/2007 03:02:23 PM
This is what photography is all about to me - capturing the feeling - the mood - the essence....not just the subject. I wish I could pull this off like you have here.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/07/2007 11:38:28 PM
So so beautiful and I love everything about this one.....Just perfect INO.....
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/07/2007 11:07:12 PM
I like that I can't see the bird's eye. it looks as though he's flying even though he's on the branch. lovely colors and off-center composition. 7
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 02/07/2007 08:05:34 PM
This is fabulous. Great capture :-)
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 02/06/2007 09:58:52 PM
i really like this. the weather looks fierce and the bird looks unphased by it. nicely done!
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 02/04/2007 09:46:12 PM
This is lovely
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Nikon D40X
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 02/03/2007 08:03:45 AM
Poor thing. Great capture. (No voting, just commenting)
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2
Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega O.I.S lens
 02/02/2007 05:50:22 PM
This is better than an average portrait because of the winter atmosphere with flying snow and trees behind the bird.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/01/2007 05:43:16 PM
Nice little bird.
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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 02/01/2007 10:10:22 AM
Love the bg - really communicates the wind.
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Olympus E-20N
 02/01/2007 09:48:43 AM
I really like this, not as a picture of a bird but for the feeling of winter.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon
02/01/2007 12:16:22 AM
Instant fav!
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