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Exiting the Scene
Exiting the Scene
Rob O


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Challenge: Exit (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
Location: Chandler, AZ
Date: Jan 23, 2007
Aperture: f/9.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2007

 Caught this guy launching of the water's edge as I walked around the lake ... a hasty exit indeed.

Shot shortly after sunrise (facing East) on a relatively cold and grey morning. I liked the silhouette but not the flat light, so I pumped up the WB during RAW conversion (ACR 2.0) to give more of an "at sunrise" feel.

RAW conversion in ACR 4.0 with final processing in CS3, consisting of: Rotate and Crop, Selective Color adjustment to enhance the warm glow and deepen the blacks, Curves adjustment layer to pull a touch of shadow detail out and brighten the lights a touch for better contrast, Photo Filter adjustment layer to further refine the warm tones, very slight NR using Noiseware Pro then mild Smart Sharpen before resizing for web.

**** POST CHALLENGE ****

Just wanted to address the "composition represents more of an 'entrance' than exit'" series of comments. It's true it appears the bird is entering the frame, as composed, so my bad for overlooking that photographic element. The reason I chose this for Exit Challenge was because the bird had literally just lept off the water's edge and started flying away as I approached and captured this ... so it was exiting the scene in which it was shot, if not portrayed in the scene captuerd.

Thanks for all the comments.

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Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 01/29/2007 04:15:20 PM
This is an absolutely beautiful shot, and a good capture. It stretches the challenge, a bit, I think, but not totally a dnmc. Without the title, I wouldn't know if the bird was entering or exiting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/29/2007 01:09:24 PM
Who can't love this kind of pics!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 01/28/2007 02:10:13 PM
Having the bird on the right makes it look like he's entering the scene; a slightly different composition with him toward the left would convey "exit" more strongly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/28/2007 09:06:53 AM
This gives more a feeling of entering the scene. To give a feeling of exiting the scene you could have framed or cropped the shot so that the bird was facing the edge of the frame on the right with negative space on the left.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/27/2007 11:54:26 AM
shoe-horned into the challenge :-(
Nikon Coolpix S3
 01/26/2007 11:16:01 AM
I like the way the light hits the water and shows the reflections rippled in the water.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/25/2007 07:43:03 PM
Nice shot, not a big fan of this hue but it works!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
 01/24/2007 03:08:49 AM
mmmm dnmc for me but 7 for the quality of pic :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/24/2007 12:42:38 AM
Nice pic, but in order for the bird to be "Exiting the Scene"...shouldn't he be cropped in the opposite 3rd? Looks like he's entering the scene to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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