The base image was modified by slightly blurring the background and selective portions of the foreground...the gull has a pastel water color filter applied and was finished off with an oil canvas effect, combined with a sandstone coarse finish for the texture...:)
Gus nicely done, also like the crop, colors, wings spread just right to fit in frame..I wondered what it would look like if you cloned out brown land in background?...I removed it but my work copy of PS is old, so not great cloning job.
I just thought with land out, makes the sea looks so vaste, as if the gull could fly forever
..Paul
Last edited by Paul Lagasi; 03-08-2009 at 11:54 PM.
I like it both ways but do prefer the original just because the bird balances out the area of land below it. It's funny how part of me wants to holler "it's too tight in the frame!" but the other half loves that it lookes like the bird is purposely trying to squeeze into the photo! Nice one, Gus.
Thank you Julie, I'm glad you like it...:)
The land mass is the anchoring point between the sky and the sea and adds balance to the composition...This is why the wing position in frame helps wrap up the different elements and creates symmetry by having the right amount of space from wing tip to frame in an even ratio...:cool:
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