Swainson's Launch

[Paul Lagasi]

I hadn't used Pixel Bender in a while and when organizing my files I found this image. Pixel Bender was the way to go..
I had taken this photo in 2011 in Alberta's badlands, I saw this bird on a fencepost while I was walking down a road towards my car.
It let me get fairly close before launching itself for parts unknown.

I used pixel bender "oilpaint"
Thanks for looking

[David Kenny]

Paul,

Very nice processing on this one. Pixel Bender really gives it a cool look. I am sure your other shots of this launch were good as well.

- Dave

[Dennis Bishop]

The border and background colors work nicely with the colors of the hawk. This was a good application for Pixel Bender oil paint.

[LinzRiverBalmer]

This is quite beautiful, nice shot too, so hard to get these birds totally in frame when they do fly off, I usually miss a beak, a leg, a wing, etc.

Would love to see the original just to see what pixel bender enabled here.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Paul, I'm sure it was a great base image. Just enough PB on both the bird and the background. Great pose also

[Paul Lagasi]

Thank You for your post
The original is would have been lovely except for the time of day, I had to boost the ISO on that old camera and it almost froze the action, there is just a slight blur and heavy noise. I shoot everything handheld. always have.
At least to me, there is. Maybe I am a bit too picky, but the avian forum has a way of doing that . Here's the original for you to see.

[Anita Bower]

Love the position of the bird's wings, feet, head. I can feel it flying. The Pixel Bender application is almost too strong. Beautiful colors. Lovely work.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Love the colour palette. The BG is funky, but I like it! Too bad you couldn't have used the original, the wings are much sharper. In fact it looks pretty all around, but hard to tell from the jpeg.

[Paul Lagasi]

You know its funny, I looked at image in frame 6 for a few days and thought wow is it ever nice compared to the Pixel Bender image.

Just now I realized that I had experienced a senior moment...the image above is a totally different image than the image in frame 1.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hey, Paul, I wondered why you thought that the original image was so bad - I would have kept it