My Own Osprey!

ginger_55

Well, that other guy's stuff looks like art, I wanted mine to look like art, too. He was standing on "his" board, but a board is not what we want to see, so I used a gradient filter to kind of obscure the board. Then I used filter to Sylize to Edges, to fade Edges w multiply blend to dileniate the bird better. I selected the feet so that they would not be affected by the edges as that darkened them.

ginger (got any other "arty" suggestions?)

Oh, 400mm lens w 1 1/4 extender, pins taped. From across the highway in contrasty light.

Osprey Whisperer

Hey Ginger. Glad to see you got yourself one of them there osprey birds. You can always photoshop a nest, stump, speedo swim trunks on that image. :uhoh Seriously...why not a little PS magic..and paint out a bit of that "board"..and then paste a part of a nest or the likes over the top...do a gradient blend/erase etc. ?

ginger_55

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Hey Ginger. Glad to see you got yourself one of them there osprey birds. You can always photoshop a nest, stump, speedo swim trunks on that image. :uhoh Seriously...why not a little PS magic..and paint out a bit of that "board"..and then paste a part of a nest or the likes over the top...do a gradient blend/erase etc. ?

Thanks, Birdman! Does that mean you don't like the gradient that I did?

ginger (I am trying for ART???? I don't know how people get their edges and art, so I am trying for mine, smile!)

Probably I don't know how to do what you do, and you don't know what I did. It would look crummy if I tried to PS a whole nest on the board area. I did, on the top one, fill in the nest appropriately, but a whole nest, I don't know how...................but if I did, it would just be a nest, not art?

Maybe I ought to buy a book on making art, but that usually requires other purchases.

Steve Cavigliano

I like 'em Ginger

I kind of agree with BMP about the 2nd shot. A pair of speedos would look great... J/K I mean his suggestion of replacing that piece of lumber in shot #2 with a nest. Sure you'd lose the feet and talons, but it might be a better scene that way

@ you calling Miguel, that "other guy" You are right though. His work does look almost like finely detailed paintings or etchings. Whatever he does to them (besides taking most excellent shots to begin with) is fantastic. That pic with the 2 terns and some of the fighting eagle shots are wayyyyyy beyond anything I'll ever accomplish. But, I would agree that it is art of the highest order.

Must be nice to have even a smidgen of artistic ability :cry I'd give Andy's left arm (that's his rib eatin' arm) for some

Steve

ginger_55

Thanks, Steve! YOu all must have great monitors, I can't even see the board...............I mentioned it, but I can't see it on my monitor! Wonder what else I miss.

Am going to hunt around for a plug in, no way to buy one now, but there is something added to "those" great shots, and they are attention getters without whatever makes the art look.

ginger (thanks for stopping and commenting, Steve. I always love it when you do.)

Dick on Aruba

Look like difficult shots Ginger but you got them. It's a fantastic bird to photograph (if you got the change)

Dick.

ginger_55

Thanks, Dick. For some reason I got clearer shots this year, than I did last year from the same place.

Cool.

Thanks for stopping and commenting,

ginger (He is the only raptor I can find. He winters with Harry.)

Rohirrim

Glad you found your own nest Ginger. I hope you don't mind me being honest but I don't really like the gradient in the second image. I can still see the board and I just don't like the feel. But if you like it, then thats what's important.

ginger_55

Rohirrim wrote:

Glad you found your own nest Ginger. I hope you don't mind me being honest but I don't really like the gradient in the second image. I can still see the board and I just don't like the feel. But if you like it, then thats what's important.

Thanks, Steve!

Actually, that is my own nest, it is the Osprey who landed while I was there. I pass that nest at least several times a week.

No, I don't mind your being honest, no one likes the gradient. But the Osprey sits there a lot. It was just a trial and error thing. I use the gradient all the time, you all just don't see it. I used it a bit differently this time and left it "in your face" so to speak.

The Osprey nests I would really like to see, I don't know when I can ever get to them. I live by the ocean, those nests, I heard about them, they are by the lakes, an area I have never been to.

thanks for stopping and commenting.

ginger

Harryb

Glad you found an osprey Ginger. I would love to see the second shot w/o the gradient. Very often our artiest shots are the one's we do the least amount of processing on.