Weekly theme: Brown Pelicans

Pelicans processed in Topaz Simplify oil painting and clouds dropped in from another photo.

My kind of image (combining the best of two), nice wing position on lead bird, lovely effects on the sky. Well done

Very nice, Michael. I particularly like the effect on the sky!

Hi Michael! The sky looks great and as Paul said the wing position of the lead bird is wonderful. I might try to lighten a few areas of the Pelicans just a touch if it were mine. Well done.:S3:

I like it........the sky is beautiful. I agree with Denise on some lightening of birds, maybe brighten up the eye on the top Pelican a bit. A really nice in flight image.

Hey Michael,
Great advice on lightening the birds selectively. Nice use of an added sky too!

Michael,

Greetings. I like the color contrast (blue-orange) but might try a bit more luminance contrast on the birds, perhaps sharpening? I like the comp.

Cheers,

-Michael-

Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. I believe that the Oil Painting filter works best to produce a low contrast, softer, somewhat darker image. When I tried lightening or sharpening this version, I wasn't too happy with it. At some point, I will try a different filter treatment to see if there is something that works better.

Hi Michael, nice addition of the sky and I too like the wing positions of the lead bird.

Michael, I'm late to the party but I like this image..great job combining the two images, and I love the head position of the pelican on the left. My only suggestion would be to echo the others here in attempting to lighten selective areas of the two pelicans a bit...other than that, it's a really nice capture.