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digimom Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 16 W: 9 N: 10] (56)
Another photo taken at Ming Court. Outside the restaurant are ponds full of koi fish waiting to be fed. When someone buys some food, they literally crawl all over each other to get to the pellets.

See Orme's fisherman's dream for more notes on this phenomenon - and by the way, Andrew posted his much nicer koi fish photo the same day I took these photos of koi fish and -ahem- intended to post that day. :o) I am posting this one anyway because of the motion showing the fast movement of the fish and because it shows one fish actually sliding out on top of the others.

I did crop this to get an area of high concentration of fish. I think this one could be brighter, but I'm always to afraid to experiment too much. I posted my experiments to workshop - Please check that photo too.

Comments and workshops highly appreciated.

Click here to see my contribution to TE from Ming Court.
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digimom Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 16 W: 9 N: 10] (56)
Edited by:Orme Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 87 W: 6 N: 73] (311)
Great shot, Michelle. I did this WS to remove the white in the bottom left corner and bring out the colours of the fish more. I made the following changes:-
1. Rotated 3 degrees clockwise, so that I could crop the bottom left corner without cropping any fish.
2. Brightness +9. Contrast +12.
3. Saturation +24.
4. Cloned out some white parts to make left edge darker.
5. Sharpened.
6. Cropped and framed.
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digimom Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 16 W: 9 N: 10] (56)
Edited by:digimom Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 16 W: 9 N: 10] (56)
Here is my clarified, sharpened and de-speckled version. Comment on this one too.