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The Golden one


The Golden one
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Copyright: Japie Venter (japie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-10-22
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Tamron 28-300XR, Digital ISO 200, Skylight
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): 40-49 Points (Chapter 2) [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-01-15 11:25
Viewed: 6002
Favorites: 2 [view]
Points: 44
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I may be walking on thin ice posting this one, but decided to post it anyway – I hope the ice holds.

Personally I do not know much about the Golden Pheasant and decided to surf the web a bit to find out more. It seems to have originated in the east and due to its beauty has become very popular across the globe. Many different variations have now been bred and one can see by the activity on the web that these birds are immensely popular.

I found this piece on the internet:

THE GOLDEN PHEASANT

They call me the Golden Pheasant, because I have a golden crest. It is like a king's crown. Don't you think my dress is beautiful enough for a king?

See the large ruff around my neck. I call raise and lower it as I please.

I am a very large bird. I am fourteen inches tall and twenty-eight inches long. I can step right over your little robins and meadow larks and blue jays and not touch them.

Sometimes people get some of our eggs and put them under an old hen. By and by little pheasants hatch out, and the lien is very good to them. She watches over them and feeds them, but they do not wish to stay with her, they like their wild life. If they are not well fed they will fly away.

I have a wife. Her feathers are beginning to grow like mine.

In a few years she will look as I do. We like to have our nests by a fallen tree.


THE well-known Chinese pheasant, which we have name the Golden Pheasant, as well as its more sober-colored cousin, the Silver Pheasant, has its home in Eastern Asia.

China is pre-eminently the land of Pheasants; for, besides those just mentioned, several other species of the same family are found there. Japan comes next to China as a pheasant country and there are some in India.

In China the Golden Pheasant is a great favorite, not only for its splendid plumage and elegant form, but for the excellence of its flesh, which is said to surpass even that of the common pheasant. It has been introduced into Europe, but is fitted only for the aviary.

The magnificent colors belong only to the male, the female being reddish brown, spotted and marked with a darker line. The tail of the female is short.

Fly-fishers highly esteem the crest and feathers on the back of the neck of the male, as many of the artificial baits owe their chief beauty to the Golden Pheasant.

According to Latham, it is called by the Chinese Keuki, or Keukee, a word which means gold flower fowl.

The camera settings:

Program Setting: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: 100mm
F Stop: F/5
Shutter Speed: 1/60sec
ISO: 200
Tripod: No,
Flash: Off Camera Diffused ETTl
Reflective Panel: No
Cable release: No
White Balance: Shade
Exposure Compensation: -0.3
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That'll be solid ice you're on Japie. Nice detail of a really colorful bird accompanied with some very useful notes. Thanks for posting.

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  • Fisher Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1540 W: 309 N: 2234] (8915)
  • [2005-01-15 11:47]

Careful, you'll have traditional flytiers drooling for this beautiful Golden Pheasant, Cock. Excelent portrait with fine details. Well done on this composition.

Mike

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  • Callie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1101 W: 95 N: 2610] (7555)
  • [2005-01-15 12:27]

I thought I recognised this guy, even on the thumbnail, as from down Houtbaai area.
Splendid capture, and a nice note too.
Those eye, I think it can drive a gal to . . .
I was just wondering, shall we get a cape loke that?

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  • pompey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 144 W: 4 N: 746] (2774)
  • [2005-01-15 12:39]

Great shot Japie, good strong colours excellent feather definition and texture.
The eye is beautiful as is the note!

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  • willie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1023 W: 61 N: 648] (2083)
  • [2005-01-15 13:33]

Has to be wild somewhere Japie, so I believe you're on firm ground.
Stunning shot of a very beautiful and attractive bird. good work

Very good Japie.
As an old fly-fisher I have used the neck feathers for flies.
Great colours, details and composition.
Very nice work.

Man what a hairdo! Stunning and colorful portrait Japie. Very good.

Aren't those some pretty terrific colors! Just gorgeous. Nice shimmery light with fine detail. Looks like he was posing for you... -Jenn

Un oiseau hallucinant avec sa crinière blonde et sont plumages rouge flamboyant. Tu as le don de la photo . La composition , la prise de vue , les couleurs, l'exposition , la netetté, incroyable. FÉLICITATIONS.

Stunning colors on this one Japie. He really looks like a king. Good details and background.
The ice will hold solidly for me. TFS

Very colorful subject this "Golden One". Very good shot @ 1/60th. Nice detail & superb color. Excellent notes.. TFS

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1835 W: 301 N: 4287] (14767)
  • [2005-01-16 2:34]
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Excellent Painted Golden Pheasant, Japie.
I like very much this egyptian look.
Great compo and PoV.
Excellent post: picture with an interminable and very instructive note.
Thanks

ooohhh wow.. Hy is pragtig.. mooi kleure !!

I love his rockstar hair-do on top of his cloak ;)

lovely colours, but i nearly missed his beak cause it looks like the background.. Maybe my calibration is a bit off..

The rest of him is just beautifull.. THANX!!

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3277 W: 148 N: 6163] (18832)
  • [2005-01-16 3:47]

It doesn't look real:) Good capture Japie and the details and colours are sharp and clear. NIce shot.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2636 W: 74 N: 9091] (31094)
  • [2005-01-16 5:55]

So colorful! Agree with others - looks like extravagant rock star or maybe fashion designer. Great bird perfectly captured.

Composition: ****
Sharpness: ***
Color: ****
DOF: ***
POV: ****

Very nice capture, great colours.
Well done.
TFS.

Very engaging chap by the look of him, beautiful golden mane, soft and shiny looking. Splendid colours. I would have liked a bit more DOF, though, it seems as if already the bill is slipping slightly out of the range.

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  • carper Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1973 W: 119 N: 2582] (8439)
  • [2005-01-16 13:07]

Its a pitty that he turn his head a little out out focus. It's just a little. However the capture is very good, the colours are super and I like the choosen angle you took the shot great job Japie

Just great! I love his cloths :-) And his coiffure too ;-) Could you asked him can he stay my desiner? ;-)
Very good idea, thanks :-)

Very nice color and details, Very great sot Japie
in a friendly way Christophe

Wonderful portrait. Good DOF, well saturated colours. Great as usual.

I must admit that although it is not your best shapness the subject is fantastic. The textures and colours shown are incredible.
PTS tomorrow.

A boss come moreover from Egypt maybe! It has a magnificent head port, its colours are magnificently saturated well and the good composed photo. Really, it a good shot!

Un maître venu d'ailleurs... de l'Égypte peut-être! Il a un port de tête magnifique, ses couleurs sont superbement bien saturées et la photo bien composée. Vraiment, c'est très bien fait!

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  • optic Gold Star Critiquer [C: 322 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2005-04-01 18:40]

Hi Japie ! what a beautifull golden pheasant, i like the vivid colours & detail, dof & pov are great, you did a great capture !

Very well done,

Regards,

Christian

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