Artist's description:
I took lots of really cool shots with my first digital. This is one of my favorites of those. Just down the road from the Frosty King in Tehachapi, CA, where they serve up some really great ostrich burgers, is a the Indian Point Ostrich Ranch. Earline and I took the grand tour and were quite impressed. It is not difficult to see the dinosaur pedigree in these amazing birds! I think the birds were a bit less impressed at us, and I think this one was glaring at me with contempt for the ostrich burger I had consumed the day before. The editing that went into this photo was quite involved. (Click here to learn more and to see "before" and "after" shots.)
You can see other cool farm and ranch scenes in the Farm and Ranch Scenes Collection.
Artist's technical assessment of the image quality:
Sharpness: reasonably good
Camera shake: nothing visible
Digital noise: moderate
Compression artifact: low
Chromatic aberration: low
Distortion: unknown
Maximum acceptable enlargement: 16x20, without conspicuous appearance of compression artifact or pixelation. Up to 20 x 25 with slight appearance of compression artifact but no noticeable pixelation.
Image detail:
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