My beautiful starling, The Brat. I was between a couple photos for this challenge and the composition of this I just really liked.
The others:
//www.rpi.edu/~defigh/bwcolor2.jpg
//www.rpi.edu/~defigh/bwcolor3.jpg
//www.rpi.edu/~defigh/bwcolor4.jpg
//www.rpi.edu/~defigh/bwcolor5.jpg
and for fun, The Brat getting annoyed at my incessant picture taking:
//www.rpi.edu/~defigh/attack.jpg
All I did was increase brightness and contrast and that got rid of most of the background. I then cloned out what ever little bits of color were left back there and did a little light burning on the feathers to add some more depth.
Maybe some will find it too colorful, I really dont care. She is a black and white bird and she cant help that she is beautifully iridescent! :)
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this is funky beyond words. wait.. wait... I'm getting a message... "Nevermore!" Let us all dissolve our beaks into the funkiness. Amen! 9! (I lied... I gave this a 10)
Now that's a pretty bird. A bit too much color to really be a B/W subject, but it looks too damn cool for me to care about that. I think I would have preferred the focus to be on the eye and beak, but I still like this a lot.
a nice idea, but I would hav focussed differently. The feathers draw the eye up towards the head. I would have focussed on the head, with just sufficiently narrow depth of field to allow the foreground feathers to start to go OOF.
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