Steps I used to create the after version in Photoshop:
Posted on the After Before Friday Forum week 83 on April 22, 2016.
Red-tailed Hawk, Central Park April 19, 2016
I photographed this little Swamp Sparrow in Central Park on April 10, 2014 at the Azalea pond in the Ramble. I made up a story: He sees himself, looks several times then, not sure if it is another bird or himself, runs off.
A White-breasted Nuthatch foraging for bugs on a tree trunk in Central Park on March 23, 2016.
Nuthatches like to walk down and Downy Woodpeckers usually climb up treetrunks — I remember it this way, Downys go uppy Hatches go down.
Ducks and a grebe at Jaqueline Kennedy Onasis Reservoir, Central Park, New York March 7, 2016.
I started with three images of a Brown Creeper photographed near the point in the Rambles of Central Park and made a composite using masks. The birds were not the sharpest, so I duplicated the layers, merged them, and used shake reduction on the birds. I also added a few adjustment layers in Photoshop.
“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I’ll be darned if I know how the hellican?”
A limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt
I remember hearing this as a child. My memory was jogged by a post on Though Open Lens
A Blue Jay bothering a young Red-tailed Hawk in Central Park photographed in March 2015.
