King Penguin swim line

As I watched King Penguins at the edge of the water, they seem to deliberate about entering or not. They approach the water and often back away, only to approach again. My interpretation is that they are aware of the predators that patrol the shores. I mostly saw groups of birds entering the water or popping out onto the shore. Going in groups would be a good strategy to confuse the predators with too many targets.

I used fractalius on this. I updated my fractalius last week and now I miss some of the older settings. Wonder if there is a way to have both?

I like this for a number of reasons, but the best part is that the penguins successively lean farther into the water. Like a row of dominoes falling down. The small amount of color is just enough. The image is mostly about curves and lines, and the look of it is wonderful.

I'd be inclined to flip the image horizontally and lighten the wake behind the penguin at the edge a little, but you've created something really marvelous.

Nancy, This looks great! The Fractalius effect really adds nicely to this. Wonderful composition. I see a tiny little blue square that I would evict. I love this one!

I love this one too Nancy! A really great composition of the line of penguins and perfect Fractalius filtering!

Marvelous! Love the image and the processing. That line of penguins, each a little bit closer to diving in, tells a story and is slightly humorous. The processing is just right--B&W with a touch of colors. Excellent work!

Nancy,

You did a wonderful job in processing this photo. Great composition and I think the mostly black and white pencil drawing effect is perfect for this kind of image. The scene does remind me of sandhill cranes that stand single file leaning towards the direction that they will fly and walk slowly and cautiously until someone takes off and starts the chain reaction.

Excellent composition, Nancy. I love the line penguins successively leaning forward just as Dennis has noted. Very nice fract effect and work well with this image. TFS.

When I first saw this I thought it was the same penguin, in four separate images, all cloned together. A very timely image showing each bird about 1/2 second apart in their actions. (hope you know what I meant by that, its easier to think than say). Very nicely composed, and the effects work wonderfully.

Thank you, thank you all for the compliments! Most appreciated. The King Penguins were so amazing to watch. Maybe because they stand upright and are so large that it is difficult not to project human feelings onto them. Captions were running through my head many times as I watched their behavior!

Nancy, I'm late to the show but I like what you've done with the image. After seeing March of the Penguins I always cry when I see them. They look like little, stoic men marching along in the face of so much adversity. I'd prefer a slight crop from the bottom. Re Fractalius - I miss the old one also. Luckily, when I installed the update it applied it to CS5 32bit but not to 64bit so I can use both. I wish someone knew if there was a way to restore the old one also - I like it better although I haven't had much time to play around with the new version.

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Originally Posted by Cheryl Slechta

. . . Re Fractalius - I miss the old one also. Luckily, when I installed the update it applied it to CS5 32bit but not to 64bit so I can use both. I wish someone knew if there was a way to restore the old one also - I like it better although I haven't had much time to play around with the new version.

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I rarely use anything but my own presets in Fractalius, and they were retained in the upgrade. Sounds like you have both the old and new presets depending on which version of Photoshop you're running. If so, you can go to the old version of Fractalius, choose whatever preset(s) you wish were still in the new version, and record the slider settings. Then, go to the new version, change the sliders to the same settings, and save the preset with the old name or some other.

I'm not sure why the upgrade didn't apply to the 64-bit version in your case. I'm running the 64-bit version of CS6, and the upgrade went smoothly.