A frigate bird was posing rather nicely for a very long time on a boat I was on. I took soooo many shots :)
No major editing, just minor tweaking during RAW conversion (contrast, saturation, sharpening, cropping). Not that I wouldn't have wanted to edit it more, but I still haven't quite made it back home from my holiday, and therefore don't yet have a version of Photoshop available to play with.
Anyway, DNMC away... :)
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As an image, this has much to commend it. The detail is fantastic. As far as meeting the challenge, this really doesn't answer well to "perspective", and from your comment I can see you know that. Particularly "off" is the title itself, as of course a birds-eye view is conventionally looking down from a great height.
The image itself can be improved with some shadow recovery and some edge burning to alleviate the very flat sky. Something like this is what I am talking about:
Beautiful focus, texture, and light. I've never seen a frigate bird up close. It's quite exciting to see more than just their beautiful distinctive outline in the sky.
nice photo.. very sharp and clear. it doesn't seem to me that i'm getting the bird's perspective like the title implies. it's a view of the bird's eye but not a bird's eye view.
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