One of the nice things about my Nikon D300 is shooting really fast, as in 8 frames per second fast! I often end up with a burst of pictures and they in turn lend themselves to a montage like this one. This is 4 exposures of the same Royal Tern layered together to make one image of the Royal Tern landing on the shore.
I was camping the Everglades National Park a few weeks ago and one morning I noticed hundreds of shorebirds along the coastline near Flamingo. When I went to investigate I found nearly a thousand Willets had most likely just landed in the US on the northern migration. Quite the spectacle to say the least.
I noticed the one birds attention and so I decided to conver this image to black and white and leave the one bird in color to sort of attact your eye towards him.
I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to make a selection around the bird and then NIK sofywares Silver efx for the conversion to balck and white.
These pictures are from my mother’s garden. She is enormously proud and devoted to her garden. And rightfully so, it is amazing and especially so in the spring. Here are a few of my favorite photographs taken last spring in her garden.
With these images the original images were all keepers, but there is something about these “painted” versions that I find quite appealing.
I am a photographer and not an artist, I couldn’t draw a straight line if I had to! And occasionally, OK more often than I like to admit I take a picture that is entirely too soft as in not in focus for me to use as a photograph. Well photoshop then comes to the rescue and I can salvage an image from what was certainly an image going in the trash bin.
Here is a before and after of a very cute Least Sandpiper preening. As you can see in the picture on the left it is out of focus and so I rebuilt it as a unique piece of “digital art”.
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