Mallard Blur

[Andrew McLachlan]

I am a rookie with photoshop blurs, but here is the first effort. This Mallard was flying out the right side of the comp. So I moved him over to the left and thought it might look cool as a photoshop zoom blur. I went with a 100% zoom blur on a background layer and then reduced the opacity. I also repositioned the blur center to the Mallard's eye so that it would remain rather sharp.

Look forward to comments.

[Jay Sheinfield]

Andrew,

Nice work, lot's of energy in the image. I might clone out that straight diagonal line along the birds left shoulder, but that's just my taste............ well placed in the frame. Great work...........

[denise ippolito]

Andrew, Did you say it was your first?:pVery nicely done and I can see the implied motion very well. I agree w/ Jay regarding the left wing. Nice amount of blur.

[Paul Lagasi]

Well done Andrew, cool blur....keep them coming

[Andrew McLachlan]

Thanks all for the comments. The dark slash (Mallard's shoulder) is now gone. Posted it on my blog today. I appreciate the comments very much.