Look this way! Please look this way!
On a recent hike in the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge, I found three house finches sitting on a wire. I took five pictures before they flew away. My intent was to get all three of them looking at me, or at least looking forward. They refused to cooperate. There was always at least one bird that was looking the other way. Begging all three birds to “look this way, please, look this way!” didn’t have any effect on them.
I got up the courage to do something about it as I was looking at the five pictures this morning. Originally, I was going to simply replace the one bird that wasn’t looking at me with one that was. Then I thought, why stop at three birds? After playing around, I came up with a nice picture of six house finches:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell me which three birds originally were not in that picture. Let us number the birds 1 through 6 from bottom left to top right. And as all good teachers would do, I require that you “show your work,” i.e., explain your decision.
This little exercise reminds me of my wise old grandmother. She carried her Kodak Instamatic camera in her purse everywhere she went, and she didn’t hesitate to pull it out and snap a picture. Once she got home she took all her pictures and mounted them in her scrapbooks and photo albums. However, she didn’t hesitate to crop them, cut them in two, whatever, in order to make the pictures better or make them fit the theme of her pages.
She used to always tell me, “What comes out of the camera is just the basics to start with.” It’s still like that, so if you aren’t using Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, Serif PhotoPlus, Photo Studio, PaintShop Pro, Photo-Paint, ACDSee, Gimp, Picmonkey, etc., you’re missing out on a lot of fun. The ones I use are Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4, Photo-Paint X6, and PaintShop Pro X5.
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Posted on January 31, 2013, in Adobe, Birds, Corel, Digital photo editing, Fauna, How I Did It, Photos and tagged acdsee, adobe lightroom 4, adobe photoshop cs6, adobe photoshop elements, corel paintshop pro x5, corel photo-paint x6, digital photo editing, gimp, house finch pictures, photo studio, picmonkey, san diego national wildlife refuge, serif photoplus. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
I like house finch, We have them here is Teas as well. Their song is a pretty little ditty. Cute photo by the way.
Oh you are mean. I’ve been gazing mindlessly at the photo for ages and have no idea which were originally there and which you added. I hope you intend telling us in the next post
I will.
I think 2,5 & 6 are the real ones, because 5 & 6 are more to the camera and their colors seem even. Then 2 because it’s looking away from the camera, and is closest in color to 5 & 6.
2, 3, and 4 are the original birds. Just for fun, 1 and 2 are the same bird, 3 and 5 are the same bird, and 4 and 6 are the same bird.
I agree with Rosa. Also 5 & 6 are leaning the same way.
2, 3, and 4 are the original birds. Just for fun, 1 and 2 are the same bird, 3 and 5 are the same bird, and 4 and 6 are the same bird.
Arrgh! I have no idea. You know how to alter your photos too well.
hi russel, i think 4 5 and 6, because their colors are somewhat brighter than the 1st three.. ? did i get it right?
2, 3, and 4 are the original birds. Just for fun, 1 and 2 are the same bird, 3 and 5 are the same bird, and 4 and 6 are the same bird.
The bottom three.
Nope. 2, 3, and 4 are original to the picture.
I reckon 2 & 3, but am not sure about a 4th were added.
What you say about your grandmother cutting pictures in her albums as she willed to – I did that, and my sister always said it was wrong to cut the photos. I couldn’t see what was wrong, and I kept doing it. I share a trait with your gran!!
You’re a clever man because I don’t think ANYone is going to choose correctly.