Reed Bunting on a new perch

[Parsen66]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

Thanks for that Stan. Always good to know how others do things

[Tigger]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

excellent work Stan

[paul linton]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

Good info Stan and thanks for sharing.

Paul

[Stan]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

thanks for looking Tom

Stan

[tesarver]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

Whelp done Stan

Tom

[Stan]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

Cheers Dave

It took a bit of a while to sort and really only planned the shots in case I didn't get any further shots of the bunting. As it happened I did get a few more later on but mainly of the female

Stan

[DaveG001]

Re: Reed Bunting on a new perch

you make it look so easy Stan
great job and thanks for sharing
cheers
Dave

[Stan]

In the woodland at Warnham they tend to spread seeds over most of the tree stumps, which doesn't make for a natural shot - almost as bad as shooting birds on feeders, so when this male reed bunting perched to feed, I thought he would make a good exercise in changing the perch



nearby was a fallen log



So with both images open in photoshop, I first made a selection of the log using the quick selection tool, then feathered by 5 pixels before copying and then pasting the selection onto the bird image

Using the move tool I positioned the log over the stump and then adding a layer mask with the brush tool set to black, painted the birds legs back in



All that was needed now was to crop for composition before sharpening and save