What's so OOTB about this?

[James Shadle]

American Oystercatcher
Tampa Bay, Fl - Last weekend.

Now, what is so OOTB or is it?

[PhilCook]

hmmmmmm ???....did you change the eye color ?

[John Storjohann]

Ditto on the eye...they're normally yellow/gold, aren't they?

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Uh, the eyes have it...

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Doug West]

It's in focus and or you used a Canon.

Doug

[Cheryl Slechta]

James, yep it's the eye (Is it a human eye?) Doug's comment cracked me up.

[Nick Palmieri]

Looks like a reddish egret's eye...also wondering what the BG is...Looks great, but is it natural??

[Bob Miller]

Is that reaaly an oyster catchers body? Are we having fun with compositing?

[James Shadle]

It's an American Oystercatcher with my grandson's eye.
My grandson is probably the smartest, most beautiful child ever and I felt his eye could only improve the Oystercatcher.

I will tell you this - you may have tons of images of all kinds of subjects, but I could find only one image with Chase's eye looking in the proper direction to make this work.
Thanks for playing along.
Grandpa Jim Jim

PS Canon please, I said it was OOTB not crazy.

[denise ippolito]

Great flight capture! Love the sharp new eye. I might evict the tiny dot on the bottom edge of the frame and the two tiny black lines on the right corners. These guys look great with blue eyes.

[Brendan Dozier]

Very cool James, nice seamless eye replacement.

[Andrew McLachlan]

James, a fun and creative eye-dea