Spirit of the sky

[marlunn]

This one is a bit different, I took this in camera, pushed the exposure to extreme to get a picture that was a feel of a gull in flight rather than simply a portrait of a gull flying. I guess this will be a love / hate picture. It works for me as to what I wanted and how I wanted to do it - in camera with bare minimum pp, a crop and that was pretty much it. Just thought I would put it up here to see what you think of it.

[JBW]

Fabulous gull but the mood is seriously destroyed by the watermark. But then I have a thing about watermarks.

[marlunn]

Thanks Brian, appreciated.

Ah, well my image on my screen does not have the watermark, I only put it on for the web image

[Barbara Ponder]

Mark, I like it but wish it had a little more on the right, not much, just the outline of a wing perhaps. Interesting technique that I think has merit. It looks very water coloresque.

[Wavelength]

I liked it and take it as your creative interpretation...

[ShaneS]

I like it Mark. I wonder how it would look in black and white?

[bnnrcn]

I like it Mark

[marlunn]

Thank you Barbara, That has been commented on elswhere, I will do some pp and see what I can do with it (not a process I have any great skill with)

Thanks Nandakumar, appreciated

Cheers Shane, hmmm, may try that

Thank you Binnur, much appreciated

[marlunn]

in deference to Brian, no logo,

in colour with a bit more detail



and in Black and White

[Geoff F]

My first thoughts were that the wing tip needs to be connected to the body, as Barbara also mentioned.

The second edits works fine for me. Slightly prefer the little bit of colour version.

[marlunn]

Cheers Geoff appreciated

[IzzieK]

I love the second edit, Mark...very artistic rendition.

[marlunn]

Thanks Izzie, the more I look at it the more you guys are right - it needed that bit more definition than the first version

[ShaneS]

I like the 2nd color version and if the BW version (thank you for putting that one up BTW) had as much pop they would both be winners in my books!

[Barbara Ponder]

Mark I like the color edit very much! Just enough to give the illusion. Very nice!

[JBW]

Thank you. My vote goes to the black and white but thy both are fine.