quote the raven nevermore (c&c)

CraggyIslander

Was up in the northwest this weekend and captured this cheecky chappy giving me the eye Lens used is the 70-300 canon. Have a few more to put up from that trip, but they need more PS than just a simple crop

Dundhoone

hey, you've actually made something fierce ugly look half decent! niceone!

Ordinarily it would be crying out for a B&W conversion, but theres colour in those wings it would be a shame to lose

Zillah

Dundhoone wrote:

Ordinarily it would be crying out for a B&W conversion, but theres colour in those wings it would be a shame to lose

Where theres a will theres a way!

Tarakiwa

Wow - love what you did to it Zillah!!

Alun

Would it upset you terribly if I told you it was a Rook, and not a Raven? It's the bare face part around the beak and eyes that gives it away.

Nice shot though!

CraggyIslander

Wow Zillah, looks great... more PS trickery I'll need to master any tips on what you did? I'm guessing layermask on dplicate layer to b/w the background and keep the Rook (thanks Alun) as is?

Morlar

I think the 2nd edit works a lot better. I would have downsized it a bit more, unsharp masked it a little bit and maybe tried some vignetting effects - (though that might be overkill).

Zillah

Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

Wow Zillah, looks great... more PS trickery I'll need to master any tips on what you did? I'm guessing layermask on dplicate layer to b/w the background and keep the Rook (thanks Alun) as is?

Nothing so fancy! I used the magic wand to select the background, manually changed the selection a teeny bit and desaturated it. Thats it really I did start messing around with layers but I realised the direct route would probably be easiest.

Ruu_Old

Good work Fred, the colour in those feathers is fab and nice editing from Zillah.:)