Weekly theme: Brown Pelicans

[Michael Yessik]

Pelicans processed in Topaz Simplify oil painting and clouds dropped in from another photo.

[Paul Lagasi]

My kind of image (combining the best of two), nice wing position on lead bird, lovely effects on the sky. Well done

[Maureen Allen]

Very nice, Michael. I particularly like the effect on the sky!

[denise ippolito]

Hi Michael! The sky looks great and as Paul said the wing position of the lead bird is wonderful. I might try to lighten a few areas of the Pelicans just a touch if it were mine. Well done.

[Jay Sheinfield]

I like it........the sky is beautiful. I agree with Denise on some lightening of birds, maybe brighten up the eye on the top Pelican a bit. A really nice in flight image.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Michael,
Great advice on lightening the birds selectively. Nice use of an added sky too!

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Michael,

Greetings. I like the color contrast (blue-orange) but might try a bit more luminance contrast on the birds, perhaps sharpening? I like the comp.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Michael Yessik]

Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. I believe that the Oil Painting filter works best to produce a low contrast, softer, somewhat darker image. When I tried lightening or sharpening this version, I wasn't too happy with it. At some point, I will try a different filter treatment to see if there is something that works better.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Michael, nice addition of the sky and I too like the wing positions of the lead bird.

[John Storjohann]

Michael, I'm late to the party but I like this image..great job combining the two images, and I love the head position of the pelican on the left. My only suggestion would be to echo the others here in attempting to lighten selective areas of the two pelicans a bit...other than that, it's a really nice capture.