Real hawk, make believe sky..

evil eggplant

Maybe this belongs in the Photoshop Forum, the hawk was shot against a bright sky, to expose the bird properly, the sky was washed out to pure white. The sky, sun, clouds, haze and gradient were added in processing.

Definately processed, but I think I like it.

I would appreciate your opinions. Thanks

kdog

Impressive! I think I might prefer it without the white gradients in the upper-left and lower-right hand corners. At any rate, it was a very creative thing to do with a BIF shot with a blown sky.

Regards,
-joel

Thusie

I think its kinda cool!.Ony one little thing and that is the bit of white that crept on to a feather tip on the viewers left, small, small thing

Harryb

I think I like it too. I have blown out the sky many times when getting a bif and very often the all white background can be cool too.

I like the sky an dthe clouds but I think the sun could probbaly go.

CookieS

I must agree, i like the sky replacement but the sun spot lower right hurts my eyes. nice BIF

evil eggplant

Thanks:):

kdog wrote:

Impressive! I think I might prefer it without the white gradients in the upper-left and lower-right hand corners. At any rate, it was a very creative thing to do with a BIF shot with a blown sky.

Regards,
-joel