Pacific Loon (B & W)

[gail bisson]

Trying to do some different stuff.
Mods feel free to move this to OOTB if you think that would be more appropriate.
Taken on a cloudy day. The water was grey so I started fooling around with Nik Efex Pro - B & W tool.
Left the eye the same color and cloned out a mosquito above the head.
Canon 1DX 600mm and 1.4x ISO 800 F 8 SS 1/800
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail

[Jim Neiger]

Gail, this is awesome. I think its a wall hanger.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

This seems to work well in B&W and I like the POV, the reflection and red eye.

[Joseph Przybyla]

I agree with Jim on being a wall hanger. Nice image well executed, the little color in the eye says look at me. Thank you for sharing.

[Marina Scarr]

This is KILLER, Gail. Very powerful image and you saw the B&W potential here.

[Karl Egressy]

Works well in B&W excellent head turn and pose overall. Now it would be nice to see the colored version as well.

[Mike Landwehr]

I don't often see a bird photo in b/w that I like, but this one is special. The pano crop works great in this case. A beautiful image, with great impact.

[Grace Scalzo]

I would never have thought that this would work. Excellent thinking produced this beauty. I like the subtleties which give it so much texture and you have just the perfect amount of color in the eye. Congratulations!

[Randy Stout]

Gail:

Striking photo. Glad you kept the red. Only tweak I would consider is to soften the reflection before it hits the frame edge so it doesn't draw the eye out quite so much.

Nicely done!

Randy

[Bill Dix]

Sweet! Great vision and execution. Thanks for trying it, and sharing it.

[Joe Murphy]

Looks great Gail, lovely detail & POV.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Gail, great conversion, and love the mist across the BG. Well placed in the frame, sharp, and I feel the selective colour to the eye works well. Having said that, if the eye was larger, I dont think it would have worked as well. Congrats on trying something different and turned out very well.

[David Salem]

Nice vision Gail and I think it turned out well. Only a few avian images are good candidates for a B&W IMO and this one works. The thing I like best is the mist in the BG and the keeping of the red eye. Very Nice.

[christopher galeski]

it's all been said Gail,excellent image,well thought out.

[S Govindarajan]

Fabulous image, Gail.

[Paul Lagasi]

Gail, did you go back up to Nome this year? Very nice image, being from the OOTB crowd, I love the framing