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Posted by alibenn on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:25 am

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Hi all,

A straight-forward portrait of this Kentish Plover, the same species as the US Snowy Plover.

1Ds 500/4 1.4x 1/1250 @ f7.1 ISO 200

cheers,

Alister

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There were a few justifiable comments that the image perhaps wasn't quite up to standard, the original crop is 856 x 816 pixels from a 1Ds file...so at 650, this is nearly a 100% crop...

Reworked a bit, but you get the point!!!!

cheers all,

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by Colin Inman on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:30 am
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Sweet. Love the wings up pose & white detail looks good.
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by Herman Blockx on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:38 am
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a great pose for this little guy!! love it! :) :)
 

by Alan Melle on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:41 am
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Wonderful shot of this little bird!
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by Darryl Morgan on Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:13 am
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by KK Hui on Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:28 am
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The low angle, raised wings and eye contact give the punch to this shot, Alister!
Somehow plumage detail and sharpness are not as good compared to your usual. Now I'm being too critical ... :wink:
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by Garion on Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:45 am
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Nice shot Alister. Like the wingstretch. The shot does appear a little soft on my monitor, maybe use a bit more USM? :wink:
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by Steve Cirone on Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:06 am
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:21 am
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Wow, this is a fantastic shot!
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by Mike Danzenbaker on Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:39 pm
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This is a great photo, but it looks as though something went wrong in the postprocessing; even though the size is 110kb, it looks as though it's way compressed. Did it get accidentally re-saved or something?
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by AForns on Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:24 pm
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Alister this is phenomenal 8) 8) 8) I like the feel of this image with the razor sharp head/eye and the softer appearing feathers !! very delicate ... working well with the bg !! I like this a lot !!! :)
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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:15 pm
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Alister,

You captured a wonderful pose. Very nice shot.
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by Michael Dossett on Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:45 pm
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Alister, when I saw this image I my first impression was "wow, what a fantastic pose, too bad it isn't sharp" I'm glad to see a couple others noticed this as well. I little more USM is in order I think. I also see a few jpeg artifacts. Otherwise this rocks! :D
 

by mrhughj on Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:40 pm
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You gotta love the wing stretch pose, Alister.

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:07 pm
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by avianaction on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:16 pm
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Hi Alister

On my monitor, I see 'ghosting' which is most obvious around the bill. More USM doesn't appear to be answer IMO & Mike D might be along the right lines. A stunning little plover & pose despite these issues.

PS: You'll have to explain to KK what the blue stuff is in the BG though!! :mrgreen:
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by alibenn on Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:31 pm
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The 1Ds is phenomenal for grabbing details, this is actually a pretty big crop, about 15% of the frame!!! Yes, it's a little soft in places, if I'd spent more time in PS it would look a lot better....this is grabbed off my other website...

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by Mike Wilson on Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:32 pm
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Fantastic image Alister. For an extreme crop, you did very well. :D
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by Vince Thomas on Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:21 pm
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This is terrific Alister... whites are beautifully handled here. You and Juanli are the Plover twins this week!
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by KK Hui on Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:20 am
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avianaction wrote: ... PS: You'll have to explain to KK what the blue stuff is in the BG though!! :mrgreen:
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Alister is in North Eastern China and I'm in Hong Kong where 'grey' bg is now the hallmark ... That's why! :wink: :lol:
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