Cuvier's Toucan

Another little play around in photoshop to make this weird looking bird a little weirder. I added a soft-focus effect using the technique shared by gamo on the NoWords post-processing discussion board And if anyone's interested, I flicked through a "Birds of Prey" book at the library today, and I'm pretty sure yesterday's photo was of a Brahminy Kite.

He said... she said...

• Nice shot Heath. I like the green background and the over exposed bits
  Navin Harish @ 2006-12-12 20:39:00
• Love the colour and focus/blur work. Nice work Heath.
  Craig @ 2006-12-13 01:16:06
• It looks cross processed, nice one!
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2006-12-13 01:47:42
• nice one! good effect, well done...
  NoWords @ 2006-12-13 03:10:02
• very nice post-processing. and what a great subject! i like this one very much. what lens exactly did you use to shoot it?
  blythe @ 2006-12-13 05:01:29
• Nice effect! Great image!
  Sidney @ 2006-12-13 13:04:59
• Splendid post-processing Heath! An interesting shot!
  Dave Mac @ 2006-12-13 13:54:51
• very interesting post processing. well done.
  kurt @ 2006-12-14 03:31:56
• crazy colours for a crazy looking bird!
  david kleinert @ 2006-12-14 17:43:35
• i really love the processing in this shot - a great shot, made even better!
  david @ 2006-12-14 18:06:47

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