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Challenge: Life III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Location: India
Date: Jan 11, 2009
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Emotive, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2009
[Jan. 17th, 2009 08:25:31 PM]

The picture was taken while on a morning walk with my niece, Reema. The idea of the walk was to get up early in the morning,take a walk around the sea-shore, and take some nice picture of niece(bhaanji, as it is called in India). It so happened that I miscalculated the sunrise, and we were there one hour before the sunrise.

This picture came into place after Reema pointed out to the trees and remarked: Look Mama(materal uncle), the birds! After some time I got busy taking some shots of the birds. It was still quite dark, the sun rays had barely started filtering in.

The colors of this shot come as much from the street light as they come from the sun. The picture was taken in ISO 400 and was quite dark. Cleaning the noise and upping the brightness a bit, and perhaps some sharpening caused some artifacts in branches, which some of you have noted down.

Hope you like the picture overall!


Good Day!
Vikram

Statistics
Place: 54 out of 200
Avg (all users): 5.9314
Avg (commenters): 5.7778
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Votes: 175
Comments: 13
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Nikon D200
Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS
 01/25/2009 04:33:46 PM
Beautiful color grad and splendid textures. Such a good use of filling the frame.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 01/19/2009 08:28:06 AM
I know it has haloing and all that crap, but I gave it an 8. I love the composition and color. It's just a beautiful image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/18/2009 04:12:16 PM
beautiful color!! egads thats very cool. love the bird and the tree silhouettes too
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Nikon D7100
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 01/17/2009 03:41:31 PM
Great colors
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Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+
Canon TC-DC58B 1.5x Tele Converter
01/17/2009 11:03:54 AM
Overall, I like it - nice colors for sure. But, there is something strange going on with the branches and some grain/noise in the background. Especially in the darker blue area - that I can see anyway.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/16/2009 12:19:26 PM
I like the smooth transition of colors in the sky. I think you oversharpened as there is a very visible halo around the branches and birds, which drastically reduces the quality and becomes even distracting.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5
Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm f/2.8-4 ASPH
 01/13/2009 11:59:05 AM
Beautiful..has something oriental to it somehow. Guess it reminds me of Japanese art or something. The style of frame is well chosen too. 8
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 01/12/2009 09:32:33 PM
Love the rainbow sky. Silhouettes also work. Sun corner is a bit blown out though, and there doesn't appear to be a central subject.
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Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 01/12/2009 04:20:57 PM
Lovely pastels in this shot and great silhouettes of the birds and trees.
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Pentax K-1
Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4 AF
 01/12/2009 03:05:05 PM
Harsh lighting, artifacts on the silhouette.
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Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 35mm f/3.5 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
 01/12/2009 12:21:24 PM
Love how the warming colors move in on the cool tone colors. It's like watching the sun rise.
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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 01/12/2009 01:52:18 AM
very nice image you have here especially the left portion. Try cropping most of the right half away!! 6
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 01/12/2009 12:45:08 AM
So different and unexpected. Every color of the rainbow! Love the silhouetted birds.
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