This shot of a little pied cormorant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_pied_cormorant) has been such a roller-coaster edit! I was happy to remember I had shot a lot of misty water backgrounds in 2014 and I also added a 'mist' layer of some clouds I recently shot from a plane, but I originally had 2 other birds in the shot that I ended up cropping out because I had wasted so much time and could not get it to look right. I think this was one of those times when the ideas in my mind did not gel with my ability!
So 50% of this edit turned out the way I wanted, the other 50, had a mind of its own.
Thanks for visiting, the new follows & being patient with my recent editing indulgences. Have a great day folks!
This one might be better on black as the lighting is quite subtle.
This is lovely, Lyn! I know that your superb skills make you strive for perfection, but most of us see something amazing when we look at your photography! If I were the teacher, this would garner 100% from me!
@redy4et thanks :) I am learning something new with each edit. @graemestevens aww shucks! @kandkids@jo13 Thankyou - I have really been enjoying the editing - and I am really pleased that you like them - it has been my guilty pleasure of the summer holiday season ;-D
You're absolutely right it is stunning on black! I have to agree with all the other comments about your skills and your efforts! I learned a long time ago in an entirely different field that very few people see the mistakes that you do when you are creating some thing! for those of us that don't have your skills all we see is excellence!
@flyrobin@bella_ss thanks for your kind words ladies. I have merged a photo of the background mist with the foreground photo in photoshop. It takes a while to 'paint way' the parts of the image that I dont need.There was actually a car & house on the road that is right behind the bird!
@bella_ss yes - the tree & bird are as shot at the same time as the bird flew off the branch. It is the same branch the sacred ibis were on. I have not 'added' any separate elements to any of these edits (other than the original bird shot). I am working to keep the original subject & foreground composition & just selectively edit the background rather than creating a full composite fantasy image. I want to end up with images that challenge the viewer about which bit is the reality, and it is the blending of interface between the two that I am finding most interesting from an editing perspective.
The worked a lot on the lighting of the tree branch though - it has a lot of dodge & burn work.
Your final result on the branch and the bird is fantastic and gives quite a mystical feel to the image especially combined with the misty background. I would love to try something like this.
@kandkids @jo13 Thankyou - I have really been enjoying the editing - and I am really pleased that you like them - it has been my guilty pleasure of the summer holiday season ;-D
The worked a lot on the lighting of the tree branch though - it has a lot of dodge & burn work.