Gold White and Green by Canon DSLR Challenge


30-APR-2006	Sam Attal

This is the backyard gold finch that refuses to eat the berries in the previous photo! (edited)

Canon EOS 20D
1/125s f/5.6 at 200.0mm iso800 full exif

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elips		13-Nov-2006 06:12
Yes, Sam, I do think it looks better! Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about the "unpleasant" bokeh but the balance of the image is much better now. ~Sharon

Canon DSLR Challenge		10-Nov-2006 17:58
Sharon, I incorporated your helpful suggestions. I hope this looks better, please let me know. Sam Attal.

elips		09-Nov-2006 06:40
Thanks, Sam! This is an interesting shot with bokeh that is distracting instead of pleasing to the eye. Can you see what I mean? I am referring to the effect where the branches in the background look like they are out of register, there is a double line instead of being softly out-of-focus. There are a couple of other things you could do to improve this shot: clone out that black spot upper middle, sharpen the bird a bit and recrop so that the finch is not dead center in the image. Nonetheless a wonderful capture! ~Sharon

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Nov-2006 03:51
Sorry Sharon, it is resized now. Sam Attal.

elips		06-Nov-2006 06:08
Sam, this is way too big at 466,500 bytes. Please reduce it to 153,600 or less when you have a chance, thanks! ~Sharon