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.
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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