Purple Gallinule Adult

Posted by Parrothead Pete on Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:44 pm

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Last Friday during the foggy morning, while most of the birds were gone, I did manage to finally get a clear shot of an adult purple gallinule. This image is a 4x6 vertical crop from a 4x6 horizontal image. I really hated some of the leaves on the left of the bird, so I cropped in close.

Canon Elan7e with Canon 400 5.6L; hh; f/5.6; 1/1000; Kodak Ultra 400UC; cropped in photoshop cs and added a neat image layer to reduce noise. Not sure if I should clone out some of the droplets on the outer perimeter of the ripples....

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by Alan Murphy on Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:34 pm

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Pete, The behavior here is awesome. It looks like he's blowing bubbles. It's a little contrasty, and I would leave the water droplets.

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by AndrewC on Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:40 pm

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Love the colours and looks like a very effective crop. Personally I like images which create a graphic design rather than a portrait of the bird and this works fine for me. Just a little contrasty like Alan said.

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by Cindy Marple on Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:59 pm

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I love the action and the crop you've chosen. I'd leave the bubbles. Agree with the contrasty comment and at least to my eye maybe a bit more sharpening. How cool to get such a clear shot of this guy though!

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by fredcor on Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:56 am

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Tremendous action catch and the crop is perfect.

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by Dan Barthel on Thu Apr 15, 2004 12:20 pm

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Love it. Still on my missing list.

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by AlexC on Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:33 pm

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Wonderful composition and very nice colors, slightly over exposure wise, over the ripples and reflection on the water, very nice!! Congrats!!

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by Juli Wilcox on Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:55 pm