Abstract - of sorts

[Matt K.]

Went to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary today. They have put up some metal birds as art, I suppose. So I took an image of these birds, straight into the sun. Not a good idea. I took the image using spot metering, hoping it would prevent it from blowing out .... fat chance. Anyway, here it is, after I played with it in Adobe Bridge. There are four versions ... not sure which one I like best. One of them is done in HDR toning ....

Version 1 - Closest to the original


Version 2


Version 3


And Version 4

[casil403]

I see someone was down at the Inglewood bird Sanctuary recently! I'm partial to #1 but just as an FYi, theres a dust spot in the lower right part of the images.

[JAS_Photo]

So that's what they did with the birds from Olympic Plaza for the winter! I like the final one best myself. I like this sculpture which can add up visually to more than the sum of its parts.

[Marko]

I'm normally more traditional with my PP play, so shot 4 for me.
But purely on coolest of the 4, that's shot 3.

[Matt K.]

I'm normally more traditional with my PP play, so shot 4 for me.
But purely on coolest of the 4, that's shot 3.

Thanks, Marko. Shot 3 is the one in HDR tones ... I kinda like this as well just from an "abstract" point of view.

[Ernst-Ulrich Schafer]

Fun stuff Matt.

[Donna]

I like version #1 and #4 the best .

[Bambi]

I like #3. it looks like a black hole opening up to suck in the birds.

[asnow]

I like #3. Is this a sign of climate change and that the the hole in the ozone layer.

[Matt K.]

Thanks all ... yes, it is fun playing with images once in a while. And true enough, it could very well be a hole in the ozone layer ...