Crowverhead

Three ravens flew one after another rather close overhead as I was leaving today. I managed to nab this one in flight. Great effort of will to hold the camera still rather than following the bird. I also didn't have time to bring it to my eye and actually aim, so I just had to hope that I had it in frame, and that camera focused ok. It turned out alright.

After cropping to 3:2, I raised the luminance curve in a new layer masked to just the raven using Filterstorm Pro's colour match tool. I then pulled down the RGB curve in the background layer slightly, to enhance the blue of the sky a touch.

Large version here.

Unprocessed version here.