It's a Little Windy!

Getting shots for a Wildlife Photo Contest. You can't use Photoshop

or crop much, so trying to get the image I want when I shoot it.

Comments?

KIM great work you did a very fine job on this photo they will love this one. REGARDS DC

Excellent! Ivana

beautiful shot, good luck with contest, you should do well

Thanks, everyone. The way the contest works is you team up with a rancher and shoot on his/her ranch for 5 months. There are 53 classes you can enter. First place in a class is $500; if you have the most winning classes, you get the grand prize, which is $6,000, I think. You split any winnings with the rancher. It's called the Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest if you want to look it up. First time I've entered; it's every second year.

This is another wonderful addition to this lovely bird series and again the exposure is perfect here and so the details and tone

 

 

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Apparently the contest is not run by photographers. No PS, no cropping, as-shot? Sort of counter to the reason we all went digital. Anyway, you have a great shot, no noise I can see, and the focus is excellent.

Excelente imagen, perfecta luz, color, bello encuadre, magnifica composicion, saludos cordiales Kim.

Another great one under your belt!

Tough contest - big bucks, William! You can do some basic PS - like sharpening (but if you oversharpen, it's disqualified), minimal cropping, only cloning to remove dust spots, slight brightness/contrast adjustment. They want the RAW files, plus the TIF and JPG so they can see what all you have done. The hard part with birds is they always seem to have a branch or twig in the wrong place and you can't clone it out. I was lucky with this one - the background was a cloudy sky.

Simple, clean and beautiful.

 

Regards

Wow Kim,

You and your Nikon did a real great job!

Wim.

Thanks, Biswajit and Wim! I'm pleased with this one, but many more shots to take for this contest. It runs until the end of June.

Interesting contest. I am sure you can do well. Wish you good luck ! Avery nice bird shot, by the way, with the clear bg & sharpness of the subject.

Thanks, Cherlyn - a definite challenge, but we're enjoying it so far!

Kim, you are always lucky and winner. Very good composition,exposure and caption.WISH YOU ALL THE BEST,Kim.

Thanks, AK. We're going in this contest more for the challenge than for the money (although that would be a bonus!!). :)

Great shot Kim, nice soft tones and a perfect background. I was going to ask you how you got the background white but I read the answer above. Good luck with the contest.

I thought at first you had dropped the bg in PS but reading your comment I see that ain't allowed. The competition sounds fun and I find different photgraphic demands to PN are a useful challenge.

There is nothing like a challenge to get the creative juices flowing, Kim. I find it discouraging at PN sometimes.....and have looked elsewhere for fun and competition.

Hey good luck with the contest, Kim . . it's a little too far away for me to enter.. .

 

btw, great shot! sometimes, I think we're on the same wavelength. . http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4012920.

It's exciting to do something challenging and relaxing at the same time. An excuse to get out all weekend and do what we love to do. Even if we don't win, we still win. :) Donna, you're right - we often do have similar pictures.