BEfore Photoshop, this was a gray on gray very foggy image

[Steve Bein]

I used PB, max saturation and contrast, some playing with combining layers and then over sharpened it to get this very grainy image.

[Christopher Miller]

I really like the pose and colors to this, Steve, but not the grain. I would try blurring the image, masking the bird, to see if a smooth BG could be attained. Just my opinion of course. :S3:

[Indranil Sircar]

Another interesting composition, Steve. I like the pose with the fish. The color is nice and the blue eye really stands out. The grain works fine for me... but there seems to be vertical patterns in the grain which I am not sure I like.