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Published: 2005-08-29 01:21:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 174; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 21
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One of the many varieties of birds that grace my backyard due to my providing an all you can eat buffet.Related content
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the favs, too.
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how pretty and sharp 
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I was drawn to this photo because it focuses so sharply on the bird and how the backdrop blurs slightly creates a very nice, slightly one-sided effect that is overall quite eye-catching, if I do say so myself. 
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Oh, they will. Many, many years experience of feeding 6-10 teenagers a day. My home was, and still is, drop in central!
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Yikes. What a learning experience!
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Well, all of life is a learning experience, or should be. I have learned far more from the kids who came into my life than anyone else. My daughter has Asperger's Syndrome ( on the Autism Spectrum), my son has suffered in the past from depression (to the point of cutting) and the various teens we've loved, fed, sheltered, taken in, have been bi-polar, OCD, sociopathic, eating disordered, driven, regular (no normal = there is no normal), clueless and much more. But it has lent itself to lifelong connections and they all still call me Mom. I always felt that if I could make a difference in someone's life, no matter how small, the effort was worth it. I live by the Ralph Waldo Emerson poem "Success". And I hope all the folks who are gouging us on gasoline and oil tonight are choking in their ultimately shallow lives.
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That's really awesome of you ^.^ Not many people would do that, and I'm glad you made their lives much more enjoyable.
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Quite a nice capture, well composed. You've got a touch of chromatic noise in your shadows, though. Do you do any post-processing?
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I try to do very little post processing. Mostly just a little contrast bump. I learned on an all manual K-1000 and resisted digital imaging for years. I appreciate what it can do, but I think it gets very easily overdone.
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Too true, but there are many ways that you can subtly improve a picture without anyone being any the wiser. I've found that the most accomplished digital retouchers are those whose work is impossible to detect. I've tried to live by that rule, for the most part.
As for your shadows, if you're using Photoshop (or PS Elements) you can fix that quite easily by using the sponge tool to desaturate those areas. It'll be a little less distracting, and no one will ever notice that you did any retouching at all.
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Thanks for the tip. The true artistic retouchers were in the day, however, when a brush had to be taken to negatives. Very, very tough and now out of work!
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I never had to do that myself, but I came close when I ran an imagesetter and had to fix mistakes with rubylith. Definitely a lost craft, that.
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