Motif: Peacock

Posted by christoforos on Wed May 05, 2004 11:00 pm

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copyright 2004 Christoforos Giatzakis

EOS630, Sigma 28-70, slide film

Hello everybody,
a shot taken a while ago for the motif.
Comments and suggestions welcome as always.
Thanks for looking.
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by Greg Downing on Wed May 05, 2004 11:14 pm

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Incredible shot! WHere was it taken?

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by christoforos on Wed May 05, 2004 11:19 pm

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Thanks Greg.
This was taken at the gardens of a small hotel in Crete, Greece. The owners of the hotel had this peacock walking around in their gardens for some time..

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by Cindy Marple on Wed May 05, 2004 11:43 pm

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One proud bird for sure. I like the way you've cropped the tail and the angle between the bird's head and body that show all the colors so nicely.

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by Mike Wilson on Thu May 06, 2004 2:14 am

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Sweet pattern shot. An incredible bird for sure.

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by Peter Wallack on Thu May 06, 2004 6:10 am

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The dreaded RED X was all that I saw.

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by AlexC on Thu May 06, 2004 9:08 am

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The Peafowl from Paradiso!!!
What a wonderful spread tail, wishing for his face to be parallel with the film plane, but wonderful as is, a tad over saturated but not a nit!! Congrats!!

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by E.J. Peiker on Thu May 06, 2004 9:16 am

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This is magnificently executed.

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by Laura Stiefel on Thu May 06, 2004 11:26 am

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This is drop dead gorgeous! Wow, do those colors glow.

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by Alan Melle on Thu May 06, 2004 11:47 am

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Psychedelic! That green rump really jumps out at you. Great shot!

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by Alan Murphy on Thu May 06, 2004 12:05 pm

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It must be me, but it looks a little dark from here. It's an awesome photo though.

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by AForns on Thu May 06, 2004 1:15 pm

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Agree with Allan being a bit dark

I have tried several images like this one but never been able to pull one off........ This is wonderful!!!!!!!!

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Thu May 06, 2004 11:43 pm

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These birds are beautiful, but either I'm going blind or everyone else is. The image looks soft and you can't see either eye.
The bird is great, but as far as I'm concerned the image isn't

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by AForns on Fri May 07, 2004 7:31 am

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Richard you can't the see the eyes because the bird is looking straight at you and has a very narrow profile. In my monitor the image looks very sharp and it is a scan slide (not a digital) this is remarkable!!!!!! I have viewed the image again at 300% magnification and have to stand by my previous opinion. I like all aspects of the image. Have tired similar ones many times and come up empty.

..........now as far as vision correction you do have many choices, some of the soft contact lenses work great, Lasic is wonderful.......