Northern Shoveler Wingflap

Posted by LHays on Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:49 am

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This was a cooperative Northern Shoveler that was at a local lake for a couple of days this fall.....hiding among the mallards. I would like to rework this one but the RAW image was inadvertently deleted along with with most of the local images that I shot this fall when my HD was full and ready to crash. I did save the TIFF file that I had originally worked on so this is perhaps "overworked". However, I played with the new PS/CS shadow and recovery tool which I think is going to be a wonderful tool....when I can figure it all out.

Canon 1D, 500mmL IS, 2X TC, 550EX, tripod
Original data lost but probably f/11 and fill flash
PS - some cropping, USM, levels, shadow/recovery tool

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by Matthew Whitley on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:01 am

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Wow what an awesome shot! The eye is striking and really draws the viewer in. I like the angle of the lighting as well. Very nice... sorry to hear about your HD problems!
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by AlexC on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:02 am

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Holly Bat Guano from Carlsbad Caverns!!!
They are just getting better and better with each post!!!
This one has Magic Pixar Dust sprinkled all over it!!!

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by Sandy Mossberg on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:03 am

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Excellent action and composition, Lana. F11 was a great choice.

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by Harvey Edelman on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:20 am

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:35 am

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Data lost??? Surely you are archiving your RAW files. If not, I would suggest you start to otherwise you have no original!

The photo is great, Shovelers can be so difficult.

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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:40 am

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Lana,

This is great. You captured some wonderful detail in the wing and a nice view of the eye. I also like the water color. Excellent work.

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by Carol Clarke on Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:36 am

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Excellent detail in bird and eye! Great catch!!

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by Alan Murphy on Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:40 am

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Wonderful shot Lana.

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by Jill on Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:13 am

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Wow, Lana!!! Super capture of the action in beautiful waters!! Adore the eye, beak, wings and tummy!!!! You best listen to E.J. on archiving ...

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by BrianS on Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:23 am

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Sweet one -- as soon as I saw I could hear in my mind the shoveler saying 'I once caught a fish this big'

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by Bill Whala on Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:31 am

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Wonderful wing flap shot. I don't have anything as nice as this. Very well done!!

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by Alan Melle on Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:10 pm

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Excellent! Great action, perfect exposure and the color of the water is wonderful. Well done!

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by Jim Neely on Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:07 pm

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Nice image. Too bad about the RAW file.

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by Mike Wilson on Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:33 pm

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Excellent timing and composition. The colors are very nice.

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by KK Hui on Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:03 pm

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Excellent color and details, Lana!

You are so good at capturing wing flap shots ...

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by Cliff Beittel on Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:21 pm

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Can't believe I missed this earlier today. It's wonderful. Great color, and I really like the detail of the left primaries (right side of image) close to the bill.

One of my two Maxtor internal drives is limping the last two weeks (official Dell warning on startup) and will be replaced over the weekend. It and its partner replaced the crashed original drive from Dell (also a Maxtor, I believe) just 13 months ago. The guy who's doing the work for me says transferring large files is the most stress you can put on a drive (that is what I was doing, of course, when I found the bad file--moving files off the nearly full internal drive onto an external one). In addition to the internal drive failures, I've had one bad Maxtor external unit (out of two). So I'd put very little faith in hard drives. I'm looking at a DVD burner, as CDs are impossible with 120 MB files.

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by Rob Palmer on Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:20 pm