On an overcast day last week, I came across this Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), silhouetted against an almost white sky. As I was focusing on him, he hopped to a slightly higher branch. He didn’t flap his wings at all, and I managed to catch him in mid-air.
The image was underexposed and as I played with it to bring back some of the details, I realized it was already almost black and white. It was not a far stretch to desaturate the photo and play around in black and white. In fact, it was so much fun that I decided to work on a second photo of the same mockingbird.
I think I need to work on my techniques a little more, but I like the initial results of my dabbling in black and white.
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The first image made me chuckle, bird on springs. The second looks pin sharp. Nicely done 🙂
Thanks. I really like your comments. The second photo is technically the better of the two, but the moment I captured in the first is so unusual that I knew that I had to post it. Both of the images got a little grainy because they were underexposed and backlit. Converting to black and white helped to mask that a little.
I agree, the first has an extra bit of real life to it, Ilike action and different, and to be honest, technically my photos are never good anyway, I like a photo to provoke a response, my response was bird on springs, because it looks like its bouncing into the air, I think its brilliant 😀
In the first picture this bird is definatelly a walkair :p
Made me want play some music for your dancing bird up there. very good.
Thanks, and I think my dancing bird could definitely use some music, maybe “Jump (for my love)” by the Pointer Sisters.