Welcome to Week #49 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #49 challenge is birds using selective color with most of the photo being monochrome, black and white or sepia tone. Your choice of birds.
The feature image is a Laughing Gull approaching closer as we ate our picnic lunch on the beach at Little Talbot Island State Park. We don’t feed them, but if a chip blows out of our hands from the wind, we don’t rush to grab it from the sand.
Over the past week, I have shared some tutorials on how to perform selective colors in your photos using three different programs. I shared CorelPaint Pro 2021, Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Cee Nuener’s tutorials using Adobe Camera Raw. If you missed them and want to find out more, click on the following links:
There are many programs, some free and many mobile apps for you to use on your smart phones. I didn’t explore those options this time around, but maybe in the future. If you have a favorite and want to share, I would be up for discussing it for the next go round. We will be doing this again in the near future.
Black-crowned Night Heron
I thought I would leave my Black-crowned Night Heron in for this challenge. This is one of my all-time favorite photos and he has gotten around the blog a time or two.
Tricolored Heron
An adult Tricolored Heron’s face and beak will turn bright blue during the breeding season.
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatcher stands out even when I don’t use selective color. His red-yellow eyes and bright red-orange bill make this an easy bird to identify.
American Avocets
The graceful American Avocet is a black and white bird with a grayish head in non-breeding plumage. These two were breeding adults with the rusty head and neck.
Domestic Goose
Have you ever seen a blue eyed goose? I hadn’t until I saw this beauty at Floyd Lamb Park located near Las Vegas, Nevada. This domestic goose was not mean tempered like some domestic breeds.
Mallard
Male Mallards have so many beautiful colors. His bluish purple side tail feathers were tucked in or I would have added that color back in with the yellow, green and orange legs.
Domestic Muscovy Duck
With a face only a mother could love, this domestic Muscovy Duck lives at the cemetery with some other domestic geese, Mottled Ducks and Mallards.
White Ibis
White Ibises have this orange-red curved bill, but this one had a deeper red. This was one of two parents with one young nearby.
Verdin
Verdins are small grayish birds with a bright yellow patch on the head and a chestnut shoulder patch (not visible in this photo). I gave you a comparison for this one. He stands out either way. These are desert birds found in the Southwestern part of the United States.
Hooded Mergansers
These two male Hooded Mergansers had several females around them. I cropped the brown feathered girls out of the photo. The males have the striking yellow eyes and the breeding females have a cinnamon colored eye.
Turkey Vulture
Imagine if the Muscovy Duck and the Turkey Vulture mated….Okay maybe not! This redhead is nature’s vacuum cleaner. These birds are graceful in the sky and clunky on the ground, but they make the most of cleaning up roadkill.
Roseate Spoonbill
The Roseate Spoonbill is one of six species of spoonbills in the world and the only one found in the Americas. Their feathers turn pink from eating crustaceans and other aquatic invertebrates. The pigments in those food sources is called carotenoids.
Next time…Week #50 – Two or more bird species in one photograph. (6/4/21)
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57 responses to “Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds Using Selective Color”
Reblogged this on About the Jez of It.
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Thank you Jez! Appreciate it! Sorry I’m late with the reply. 🙂
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Most welcome xx
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🙂
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Oh boy. I need to get busy for this one. Love the effect!
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Thanks VJ. I’m catching up so I can’t wait to see what you got. 🙂
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These are fab. A great sales pitch for making the effort to edit shots in this way.
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Thanks Margaret! I get nothing for the pitch. I just want to get the info out there. 🙂
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Love your finished images! I used to know how to do this but it’s been a while. It will be fun to re-learn how to do this.
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Thanks Beth! I look forward to seeing them. It is a fun thing to do for sure. 🙂
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Lisa, you really nailed the eyes in these photos. Wonderful selective coloring for this week.
Here is my entry for the week.
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Thanks Cee! The eyes get me everytime. This was so much fun especially after the stress of the week. I may be doing this on a semi-regular basis. 🙂
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Fabulous photos of these birds Lisa….here is mine…
https://100countrytrek.com/2021/05/28/bird-weekly-photo-challenge-birds-using-selective-color/
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Thank you so much Anita! It was a fun challenges for sure! 🙂
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Love this photo challenge Lisa.
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Thank you Anita. It is one of my favorites! 🙂
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This is great, Lisa! I am for sure going to check out the photo shop tutorial! Awesome bird photos!
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Thank you so much! I’m sorry for the late reply. I got hacked on Friday afternoon and just got back on WP today. 🙂
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Oh wow! That’s not good! No worries, we all have lives outside of blog world 😁
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Thanks Lisa! Yes, but this was not even a vacation. LOL! 🙂
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Lovely shots of colour in these captures. Beautiful!
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Thank you so much Maria! Loved your Mew Gull! 🙂
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Very cool pictures. Several of them have more than one color. That is interesting. Did you do that in Photoshop or Bridge? I particularly liked the white goose with blue eyes and a multi colored bill. Here’s my post. Hope you like it, 🙂 https://alwayswrite.blog/2021/05/28/bird-weekly-dipping-birds-in-the-selective-color-processing-bath-using-ps-elements/
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Thanks Marsha! Photoshop of course. 🙂
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Of course! 🙂
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LOL! 🙂
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The American Avocet is a real beauty !
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Yes, especially in those breeding colors. 🙂
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those heron photos are great, and so is that spoonbill one…
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Thanks Jim. I had fun with this challenge but haven’t been able to enjoy it since the Etsy wave. 🙂
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that sounds like a good problem to have… 🙂
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Yep a good problem to have. 🙂
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I really like the roseate spoonbill!
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Thanks Karen. It is one of our favorite birds to see. Never get tired of seeing pink flying in the sky. 🙂
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Now that you mention it, there’s not much pink flying around Sydney. The odd galah, but few in areas where I’ve lived.
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There isn’t much pink anywhere except a few areas all over the world. We are blessed to have them. 🙂
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It’s really cool the different looks you can get with this technique
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Yes it certainly is and it’s fun and creative. 🙂
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Here is mine for the week
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It took me a while (this is fiddly work!) but I’ve finally got something to share with you: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-playing-with-a-selective-colour-technique/ There aren’t nearly as many photos as you have but I hope you like it. I’ve really appreciated being pushed by this challenge to learn how to do this. Your Photoshop instructions were very clear and I found I could follow them almost to the letter in Elements 🙂 As I say in my post, I’m in two minds as to whether I like the finished results as much as I thought I would, although I have to say yours are very effective. Perhaps I’ve just been peering at mine too closely for too long!
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I think you are too hard on yourself. Your images turned out beautifully! Plus, the more you practice, the better you get. However, I would have never known this was the first time by looking at these photos. Hope you keep practicing and google other ways to do this for Photoshop Elements. There is always more than one way. 🙂
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Yes, almost always there’s more than one way in PS! I learned some new stuff on a Camera Club Zoom earlier this week so I have something else to fiddle with now 😂
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Yeah for the fiddle! LOL! 🙂
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Cattle Egret
http://robertsnapspot.com/2021/06/06/wildlife-birds-of-the-air-cattle-egret-in-fountain/
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