Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 990 with a Crystal Vue 8X tele extender. Adjusted brightness and contrast, increased saturation and lightness, selected the bird using a combination of magic wand and lasso, then inverted the selection, cleaned up a bit in quick-mask mode and desaturated the selected background.
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i feel the outline of the bird has too much of a hard line where you used the selection tool. Maybe try a softer edge next time to reduce the effect of the selection tool. not sure which program you used, but there should be an option for "soft edge"
excellent closeup of a bird, but not the most well-rendered example of selective desat., i think the colors are not well suited - the bird doesn't look too different from black and white
the bird looks a lot like a painting (not a good or bad thing, just an observation). if i were to recommend one thing, it would be to boost the contrast a little.
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