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    I was playing around with this image that I created this morning and thought I would try something a little different with it...

    Don't be shy...

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    Interesting, Jim. Visine might love it for an ad. I would like to see it in full color, and think I would personally prefer that. It's a great pose and nicely detailed.

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    Cool Jim! I like the capture and the red eye reveled!

    BTW, assuming that you did the BW convert/eye revel in PP, shouldn't this be in OOTB?

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    Jim, I don't know much about black and white. I like this but the whites don't look white and the blacks don't look black. I guess it looks as though it has some cast to it. I think someone who has experience in B&W could give you some good advice on how to make this cool capture pop. I love the red eye!
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    Great idea. Like the comp. and the setting. I think the image overall seems a bit flat. It lacks some much needed contrast. As stated above , the blacks and whites seem a bit muddy. How did you make the conversion?

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    Here it is with the neutrals and blacks with a bot more punch. Histogram now shows the shadow areas buried however.

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    Cool fishing pose with the raised leg, and well placed in the frame. Good idea with the selective colouring, but my honest opinion, I really feel this would look better in its original colour. I feel there are only certain species that one can convert to B&W and make it work.

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    My opinion is that I love birds for their great colours so B&W doesn't work for me in most cases. This is very different though, good idea with coloured eye but would like to also see the coloured version TFS

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    Re-post looks much better.

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    Jim, I love the pose, the eye and the composition. The repost does look much better as the original was a little flat. Glad to see you experimenting.

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    Jim, nicely processed, much prefer the repost!

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    It works for me. Well done.
    I like the softer first version better, in fact I would put this through Gaussion blur and really try to look OOTB.

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    Jim, I think I would like the color version better. But perhaps I am just artistically limited. Why don't you post the color version too?

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