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C'Mere Sweetie, There's Room for Two
C'Mere Sweetie, There's Room for Two
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Challenge: Framing IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Birds
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Feb 25, 2010
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 360
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Feb 25, 2010

 Not an original sort of subject for me but the combination of foreground and background making a complete frame around the bird appeals to me, and the way the trees and branches have a sort of mirror opposite pattern going. The Chickadee appears to be talking to someone just out of the image and he could easily make space for a branchmate, so that's where the title came from ;-)

PP - tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1)) erased all but bird and foreground branches and merged at 30% transparency, cropped, levels, white balance, dodged bird a bit, cloned out one small twig right behind the bird, increased saturation and contrast, resized, sharpened, blurred jaggies, added border.

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Place: 56 out of 127
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Views since voting: 1005
Views during voting: 232
Votes: 128
Comments: 4
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 10/31/2010 11:39:04 PM
This is so cute, love how the bird stands out.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 03/07/2010 07:20:21 AM
7
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Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX100
 03/06/2010 01:42:55 PM
i love this photo for the simplicity and fragility it has! i almost like it everything for everything, like composition, color tonality, the bird pops out so nice, the way branches are spread...
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D
 03/04/2010 10:38:58 PM
nice catch!!!
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