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    Our Nations Symbol







    Lock & Dam 14, Iowa.

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    Re: Our Nations Symbol

    Beautiful, Tim! The first one looks a bit dark and cool to me, but that's nothing that can't be fixed. And your focus and framing are dead on in all of them. Why don't you give us a bit of tech detail on how you shot these. Did you also post on the Nature & Wildlife forum?
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    These are excellent shots, but they should be in the Nature and Wildlife section. Excellent work.

    BTW, whereabout in Iowa is this? After all, I am a neighbor to Iowa.
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    Lock and Dam 14, Quad Cities. They are dark, because it was real dark, crap light. All were shot with the 50D, 500 f/4 wide open and +1 exposure compensation. All the EXIF data is embedded in the shots.

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    sweeeeet! Great shots!

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    Re: Our Nations Symbol

    Quote Originally Posted by adamsti
    Lock and Dam 14, Quad Cities. They are dark, because it was real dark, crap light. All were shot with the 50D, 500 f/4 wide open and +1 exposure compensation. All the EXIF data is embedded in the shots.
    But there's no reason you can't adjust it a bit in Photoshop, right? If it's worth showing, it's worth showing at its best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Photo-John
    But there's no reason you can't adjust it a bit in Photoshop, right? If it's worth showing, it's worth showing at its best.
    I did bring it up quite a bit, any more and it ruins the shot.

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    You know these are all awesome. In the first one I would like a deeper saturation of the sky, but man, how do you criticize this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by daq7
    You know these are all awesome. In the first one I would like a deeper saturation of the sky, but man, how do you criticize this?
    Actually the sky was gray, heavy, heavy, low overcast. I pushed the blue saturation a little too high here. His head is not quite as white as it should be.

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    Ooh, number two does it for me! Great shots.

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    Re: Our Nations Symbol

    Great shots Adam. I agree with Ray, #2 is fantastic!
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