Not much purpose on this one - I happen to be shooting a pair of swans for the Doubletake challenge & all of sudden one of them flew right up to me. I wasn't really prepared, though I do have several shots that I took before this one. I just liked the pose quite a bit. Really wish I had bumped up the shutter speed even faster than I had so that the wing wouldn't have blurred so much. This was shot handheld, btw.
I almost missed the deadline on the Free Study because I forgot the end of the month was coming up this weekend. I rushed through the edit of this & it really shows - I almost yanked it, but I already yanked 2 other challenge entries (and missed a third) this past week & I had to draw the line somewhere!!!
Post included several adjustment layers of selective color, levels, hue & sat + some high-pass filter overlay layers & some selective box blur. I was trying to get rid of the cyan & magenta discoloring in the feathers when I noticed it was 3 minutes before the deadline... Oh, there was zero cropping on this one except for that which occurred by adding the border!
Statistics
Place: 319 out of 556 Avg (all users): 5.5214 Avg (commenters): 6.1667 Avg (participants): 5.4286 Avg (non-participants): 5.8462 Views since voting: 962 Views during voting: 164 Votes: 117 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
I like the composition of this shot but am not entirely sure I like the blue hue on the normally pure white bird. I can understand that the reflections may have caused it but some adjustments might bring it back a bit.
It's as if the bird is dancing. Lovely. I wonder if you could reduce the blue on the bird's white feathers. Hmmm - maybe it wouldn't work. I was just thinking out loud. I love the spot of red from the beak. Lovely use of neg. space.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
