Colorado birds, painted black

[Tom Wilberding]

Hello birders,
 

Various birding magazines lately show bird heads surrounded by black. These portraits seem to me stark and nocturnal-looking, stripped of context, but interesting nonetheless. (Doesn’t work too well for blackbirds!)

I gave it a try. Below is a slide show, with music, of ten Colorado birds I’ve photographed, newly edited in this way.
10 pics here: http://goo.gl/huO6wm

 

How to do it? Here’s one way, using Photoshop Elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKfDzBzRK0

 

Cheers!

Tom Wilberding

Littleton, CO