When I was growing up, it was the norm to have pictures of birds in black and white. It was frustrating to try to identify a bird from a BW photo and a brief description of the bird. Now, it is normal to have bird guides with color photos. These were my thoughts when I took this shot of the blue jay.
I took several shots of this blue jay, who was trying to avoid getting his picture taken and at the same time get a quick snack. It was very difficult to get his picture taken due to this. Other challenges: the wind rapidly blew the bird feeder back and forth and the speedy movements of the blue jay. I was not fast enough to get the focus on the bird's eye, but I did capture him playing "peek a boo" with me.
I took this shot as part of the black and white photography book club. I followed Michael Freeman's steps of adjusting the contrast, hue, hightlights and shadow. My Photoshop is not working with my computer, so I used PicMonkey. I found a steep learning curve when I used PicMonkey. After several tries, this is the best I could get with PicMonkey. I should label this photo, "A work in progress", because I would like to work some more on the processing when I have more time.
What would you like to change about the processing?