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Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
eaglebeck


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2010-01 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
Location: Birding Center South Padre Island, TX
Date: Jan 23, 2010
Aperture: f 8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2010

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I had a 1.4 converter on my 100-400 lens. I had taped the the first 3 contacts to make the lens auto focus. This was an experimental trip to see if the lens would auto focus. Needless tosay that I am pleased with the instructions that was posted on the forum

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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/11/2010 03:13:14 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

First impressions are that this shot is a little small and poorly processed.

Technically it is the artifacts around the bird that stand out. Yo_Spiff has covered that off in his comment so I won't repeat that here.

Artistically this shot does not offer DPC what it likes. The Heron is just standing in the water, not even looking at us. Birds are a tough subject at DPC and to score well they need something wow. This shot does not have that wow, even if it weren't for the technical issues.

In summary it's an ok shot but that's it.

Feel free to PM me if you have any queries.
Gerry
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 02/05/2010 09:20:42 PM
There seem to be a lot of compression artifacts showing in this image. They are most pronounced around the bird's head, but visible throughout the image. Your file size of 138k is reasonable for the image, so I think perhaps during working on this, you may have saved it as a JPEG and then reopened it, perhaps several times. Saving and reopening a JPG repeatedly compounds compression artifacts. A good workflow is to save your file in either a TIFF or your image editors native format, until you are ready to post the final product. That way you don't lose any detail.
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Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 02/03/2010 10:52:26 AM
missed the focus. 4
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 02/01/2010 06:47:46 AM
ok, but why so small??? you have 800 pixels to play with
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