Australia 2006 (06) by redchilicat
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Description
Okay I did some experimentation with this. This beautiful bird was in a large cage which I thought took away from his beauty. I used an impressionist brush in photoshop to blur the background. This is new territory for me so any advice or opinion on this would be appreciated. Have a great day!
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Wendy

Comments (22)
Such a proud looking bird and you have captured him beautifully! Great detail in the feathers. Bravo!
A very good experiment ! A very nice effect this brush ! THis Parrot is a wonder, perfectly neat, but the composition because of the place where he is is a little bit dark (all the brown-red part). Maybe it will be interesting to try to made this part more luminous, and just with a blur in all the background, without the brush ? It's a beautiful effect, but for a subject as this beautiful bird, it's attract too much the glance But of course it's a personnal opinion ;o))) A beautiful shot
Oh my gosh did this one choose a doozy of a hat... LOL! Reminds me of those society ladies at the turn of the century who had to buy a huge hat with the longest and the most ostrich feathers in it to out-do the other ladies in town... What a proud bird this is. Great shot.
Super looking bird, background is great....Cath
What a beautiful bird...I think the brush did a great job of blurring the background, I might even have blurred it a bit more. I love what you've done with the shot. It's terrific work. ;o)
Very extraordinary bird. I would have blurred even more and make it less bright even.
I would keep the blur as it is but crop a bit more of that top background off more...then I think it would be PERFECT!!! I love it how it is now tooooooo!! huge hugs to you!
i think this has worked very well, it puts the focus on the bird. his edges are very good, you dont seem to have lost any of the feather detail.
What a proud looking bird. Excellent capture, really impressive!
Of any beauty, the colours are fabulous. All my congratulations, "hat the artist"!
Excellent capture & postwork, Yellow or Red Tailed Black Cockatoo not sure Stuart
It is a superb result, Wendy. Stunning shot. Incredible bird. Top work. Hugs. Di.
Beautiful bird and such lovely detail. A good experiment with regards to the cage, but it's still distracting, and takes away from the bird. Myself I would try to smudge and darken the background to the point where it no longer distracts from the subject. Fabulous capture!!
What kind of a bird is that? That is cool! For the postwork? One thing you could do is to select the background only and apply a lensblur. A bit hard to say without seeing the actual original!
Wendy,,,what a great bit of post work you did. It does help focus the attention on the bird..Keep on experimenting..
what breed is this beautiful bird. marvelous post work
The bird does have an expression with the feathery hat. Excellent post work. Aloha
he's a handsome one, nice snap!!
super job but I with busi2ness on this ; cool done
Fantastic photo of this beautiful bird!!!
King of parrots !
This came out beautiful!! Fantastic detail! These are such awesome birds...