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Naturific Moment

by Scott Frye

Gallery: AvianPosted February 17, 2013117 views7 comments
Osprey shot this morning near Brooksville, Florida

1/2000 at f11 and ISO 640 EC -2/3
Canon 500mm
Canon 7D

Comments

7 comments
Comment posted by Keith Bauer on February 17, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Timing is very nice for a natural moment in nature. When I review the image, I see a significant halo around the birds (especially evident in the larger version). Don't know if the sky was darkened? Also funny artifacts in the sky a bit like noise, but accentuated somehow. There is also a darker patch of blue below the tail of the lower bird that looks odd. Not sure what happened in post processing....
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 17, 2013 at 5:08 PM
The small image looks great! The large image looks over sharpened and noisy, with the sky having a noticeable "cottage cheese" look and halos around both birds. There is a darker blue patch below the tail of the bottom bird that looks like a cloning that didn't quite work. :smile:
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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 17, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Great action, Scott. There's an awful lot of noise in the image-particularly in the larger version. Was this a large crop or did you do a lot of adjustment of brightness or contrast? I'm also seeing some cloning artifacts in the lower left corner and, I think, in front of the beak of the lower bird.

:toast:
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on February 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM
terrific image - after mentioned repairs, will be realy excellent -
Sandy
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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on February 17, 2013 at 6:15 PM
Well - timed image. Agree with Sandy... Sharon
Registered on November 1, 2003, 392 Posts, 4810 Comments
Comment posted by May Haga on February 18, 2013 at 4:08 PM
Great timing. Well done.
May
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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on February 21, 2013 at 7:04 PM
Great catch, rarely see any birds mating, good job.

Ray
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