Boat-tailed Grackle
(I shoulda, and I will, burn in the very bottom of those photos. Wasn't thinking)
Below, the female Grackle
And the male Grackle
The color in the two skies are different, so I either messed up in post, or the light had changed, which it was doing constantly that morning.
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Such a plain bird to come out with such nice colors. They fly in flocks. I was bored between heavy rain, the day I was doing the raptors. These would fly near where I was sitting in my car. I finally started photographing them.
Actually, I photographed many birds. I have discovered that I much prefer photography to photoshop. I have a gazillion shots I should be working on. I forced myself to do these last night, and I am a bit disappointed in myself in the PS. Lazy, hurried and uneven. But, hey, the shots were very good. I considered just turning them into jpegs and not messing with them. But I don't do that...........at least not yet.
Thanks for stopping and commenting. Yes, for those on the ground shots, I was on one side of a narrow unused road, and the birds were on the other side. Sometimes it rained, sometimes it didn't. I took photos of anything that moved just about.
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I hate the idea that I will have to trash them or do them over, which I will. I was trying to make the sky something it wasn't...............the fast way.
The first two, I didn't think I did enough to those, those colors I remember from the first time I saw the bird.
I agree with you on the last two.
Thanks for all,
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You dont need to trash them. Just open then in photoshop or some other app that can change colors. :-)