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Mr. Blue
Mr. Blue
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
Location: Ottawa
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 29, 2008

 Lets see if I remember. It's been a while. In no particular order, I copped, hue/sat, sharpened, did a light NI pass, use shadow/highlight to bump the bird, used the blur tool on the background, to get rid of the noise that shadow/highlight added, resized and saved for th3 web, and did another USM pass. some dodge and burn in there, too, but I think that's it.

Statistics
Place: 76 out of 458
Avg (all users): 6.2893
Avg (commenters): 9.0000
Avg (participants): 6.1376
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Views since voting: 950
Views during voting: 250
Votes: 159
Comments: 6
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 03/08/2008 02:30:26 PM
I gave 3 10's in this free study and this was one of them, beautiful capture, great lighting and bokeh, nice one ;-)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM II
 03/06/2008 11:06:27 AM
Incredible shot. The tail is a bit overexposed on my monitor, but personally i like the bright highlights. It really makes the bird pop.
10
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 03/04/2008 10:29:21 PM
I might have cropped it a little shorter and wider, it might help the comp, but that's a nitpick. This is a nicely detailed shot and pretty good.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 03/04/2008 02:33:33 AM
Good composition. Nice bird. Like your background.
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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 03/01/2008 01:30:08 AM
A 10 from me, love the softness you can almost feel from the whispy white feathers to the subtle blue's, gorgeous capture. 10
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/01/2008 12:53:58 AM
very cool-9
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