From my recent trip to India. I was with Harshad (from Wildlife forum) and was supposed to be looking for tigers. But sometimes I could persuade the driver to stop for birds! I used fractalius with reduced opacity.
Oriental Honey Buzzard
From my recent trip to India. I was with Harshad (from Wildlife forum) and was supposed to be looking for tigers. But sometimes I could persuade the driver to stop for birds! I used fractalius with reduced opacity.
Nancy, I love the pose, the sharp eye and intense stare. The fract. gives it an illustrated look that I like. I think I'd like a crop from the right to eliminate the cut-off junction of the two lower branches. I bet you had a blast in India
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This is beautiful, Nancy. The white background was a great idea, and I like the way you cropped it so the axis of the bird's body runs diagonally through opposite corners. Your use of Fractalius was restrained but very effective. I can see Cheryl's point about the two branches, but I think there's also an argument for keeping as much of the lower branch as possible. It's pretty much parallel to the bird, so it reinforces that diagonal.
Nice image and application, Nancy. Like the soft feel of the image colors.
Nancy, great image..............+1 on the diagonals of the bird and the branches. Great back looking pose. Nice understated processing against the white background. Good one!
Nancy, I like the pen & ink over a color wash effect of the processing....you keep lines and details while still lending a more understated approach to the subject. I like the horizontal cropping as is, but would take a sliver off the top if it was mine...well done!
Nancy, I really like the color tones and the sketch look to this. I think I would crop a sliver from th top too! Nice job!
Thank you all! My thoughts on cropping was to place the hawk on the diagonal, as Dennis notes. I did clone out a few interfering branches but liked the sketchy look of them against the stark sky and was afraid of removing too many. The original image has more room and I'll look at some different approaches, as suggested.
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