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Posted by Jim Urbach on Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:42 pm

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Shooting a cooperative Pileated. I added my 1.4x after getting full body images, but my flash ran out of juice. I got 2 sharp images and thanks to shooting RAW and PS I was able to save these. Cropped from the right frame 20%. The vertical dimension is full frame. I like this because his tongue motion is evident. Wish I was aimed more to the left for this one,but the other portrait has his head away from the tree.

10D, 600IS, 1.4x, ISO 400, EV-2 because I was attempting to use flash as main but it never fired.

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by AlexC on Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:47 pm
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Love the tongue, the pointy head and the perfect exposure!!!
Congrats!!! That's pretty close!!!, Well done !!! 8)
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by Bill Whala on Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:55 pm
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Great save!! The exposure looks wonderful. I love the tongue motion.

Very, very nice. :)
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by Bob eliasen on Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:59 pm
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Awesome ! Very cool shot of a tough customer. Love that eye and tongue.
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by Bob eliasen on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:00 pm
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Awesome ! Very cool shot of a tough customer. Love that eye and tongue.
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by Mike Wilson on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:17 pm
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Nice one. The tongue makes this one interesting.
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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:21 pm
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Very nice closeup. I think you have enough negative space frame right. The tongue and the very slight motion blur are a plus.
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by Jimmy G on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:27 pm
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Jim this is too cool just gotta love that tongue hopefully I will get to see one of these thats not flying over my head.
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by Laura Stiefel on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:41 pm
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Awesome. I love the motion blur of the tongue. I'd love to see the tip of that toe- or not at all but this is just great as is.
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by Jill on Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:59 pm
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Great image, Jim !! I'd been hoping you zeroed in on him !!! Love his eye and all details !!! 8) 8)
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by BrianS on Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:08 pm
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A most interesting image ... feel like I just went to a KISS concert.
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by DC on Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:42 pm
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Beautiful shot and the blurry tongue puts it over the top. Congrats
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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:27 pm
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Jim,

Incredible shot. The tongue is awesome and the rest of the bird is also pretty good. Nice PS work to save the image.
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by Sandy Mossberg on Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:26 am
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Wonderful shot, Jim. The action is amazing.
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This one is excellent. Not only is it a wonderful closeup but with the tongue action, it's over the top. This is probably the coolest Pileated shot that I've seen.
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by Jim Neiger on Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:36 am
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Great shot Jim! It's just as you described it.
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You are so lucky to be able to take pictures like this of such a gorgeous bird. Well done!
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