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      Callie




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      Registered: July 2005
      Location: Roodepoort
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      White-headed Vultures in Kruger - these are solitary birds and seldom will you see more than one. She wanted a share of what he was eating, hence flew up to him, whereupon he propmtly departed. I have a whole squence of shots of the interaction between them. Unfortunately, it was on the edge of the range of the lens - about 40% cropprd off
      · Date: Thu 3/8/2006 · Views: 774
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      Camera used?: D200
      Lens Used?: 200-400 +1.4 X TC
      Mature Content: No
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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 14:07
    1. MikeP
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      Registered: July 2006
      Location: Hillcrest,KZN
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      Hi Callie

      Great shot of these birds interacting! One nit, there seems to be a sharpening "halo" around them....?
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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 16:44
    1. bothahe
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      Registered: July 2005
      Location: Gauteng (West Rand)
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      yes, I see the halo too, but you should be able to remove it.

      Well done, apart from the big crop and sharpening, the photo works well. I love the composition and hope I get the same oppertunity when I go to the kruger in a few weeks time.

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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 17:37
    1. Geurt
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      Registered: March 2005
      Location: Pretoria
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      Callie,
      Works well and sharp, even with hard crop. Halo maybe due to too aggresive "shadow/highlight" usage.
      Geurt

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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 17:50
    1. Callie
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      Registered: July 2005
      Location: Roodepoort
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      Thanks Guys
      Yes, there is a halo. the reduction brought it on - I just did a 1 min enhancing for the action. This is high pas filter, and I really pushed it. So, the small image suffer. But - I have seen 5 of these birds in 20 years of visiting Kruger, and this was the first time they were in range.

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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 18:39
    1. JME
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      Registered: October 2005
      Location: Bartlett
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      Nice one callie, sharpening nit covered, also a touch noise in the sky and ONE piece of dust.

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  1.   Thu 3/8/2006 18:56
    1. Richard Rule
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      Registered: November 2005
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      The interaction is special. One bird that I have yet to photograph. Nits covered. RR

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