"Miss Lucy"

[Gus Cobos]

“Miss Lucy”

Note: The image was slightly under exposed. Processed in CS4 and the final touches rendered in Corel Painter 11.

Meet Miss Lucy, a very curious gal, and the star of the parrot show at Butterfly World, located in Coconut Creek, Florida. Miss Lucy was gracious enough to pose for her candid portrait. She was painted with a Nikon D200, using a Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens.

Image Solution:
focal length @ 85mm / exposure mode @ aperture priority / in camera matrix metering / 1/500sec. - f/5.6 / exposure comp @ -0.3EV / ISO @ 400 / white balance @ auto / AF - Mode @ auto / color space @ sRGB / lighting solution – ambient light / tone comp @ +1 degree / hue adjustment @ +2 degrees / saturation factor @ +2 degrees / support platform – hand held.

Comments greatly appreciated...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

A lovely painting Gus - like the applied effects and bird is gorgeous.
:)

[Anita Rakestraw]

These birds are sooo colorful - and fun (we have several pet parrots.) This is a gorgeous shot of Miss Lucy and I really like the effect from Corel Painter! I don't see anything to improve, Gus! :)

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Beautiful picture, I have two Conures in my Family, Peaches (Sun) and Charlie (Green Cheek). Gus you must do my family portrait :D

[Harshad Barve]

Looks like a painting Gusbhai , Very well done & Thanks for sharing

[kostas nianiopoulos]

this image it is so pretty that u think , that is not real .. i love everything of it , well done Gus .