Hi all. Enjoying photographing Swallows recently, and kept focus on this one hoping for it to take off, which it did. I managed to get this one a fraction of a second before it took off. I had to remove a white section of the pier building on the bird's left, add canvas and use a combination of content aware fill and the clone tool before the final crop. Small dose of Topaz denoise only.
Neat wings up one and sharp on the eye. The perch and the steep shooting angle are less than desirable.
with love, artie
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I quite like the processing, theangle as mentioned not ideal but not bad. The perch is relatively big so I think I would in fact have included a little more of it as opposed trying to hide or disguise it.
Swallow pre take off
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