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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> Challenge 150 - NO PP >> Challenge 150 - Exhibition > And sometimes ya jes sits
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01-JAN-2008 Charlie Beck

And sometimes ya jes sits

Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
1/60s f/5.6 at 176.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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ctfchallenge11-Jan-2008 22:12
Nice bird, great colors - but a slightly disturbing background. This one could survive a crop and some PP, imo. To clean up unwanted regular patterns like here, there exists a slightly complicated filter for PS, which does something called a "Fast Fourier Transform". Does an amazing job once you get the hang of it. There's a free version as well. Link to tutorial:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=185
I dunno.. perhaps a simple mask and blur would do the trick instead - less fuzz and much quicker, but also more visible.
-k2
Guest 07-Jan-2008 18:26
Well done again! Pretty saturated colors for a flash shot! Looks great!
-Cat