So maybe this bird is not big enough to fly of with an apple or two or three. But it is sorta golden and it is the first one I've ever shot and it's in the list of The Brothers Grimm stories and Rapunzel and her crew were just not in town this week.
Post: Camera raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Shapen. Crop, crop, crop, crop, crop... Spot edit the remains of a twig center bottom and to little iritations about the leaf in the upper right corner. Sharpen. Remove color cast. Resize. Sharpen.
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Love the idea and the image. I think the bird is in focus, but the flower in the background is so large and out of focus that it draws the eye away from the beautiful bird and because the color tones are so similar make the bird appear to be out of focus as well. I guess to sum it up in a short but simple way the foreground and backgroung are at war for focus in this image, and it ends up hurting the eyes.
Lovely capture, very pretty bird and so sharply focused. I love the sunflower in the back, it does look a wee bit like it's coming from the bird's head but that aside, it's a beautiful shot.
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