Feather

[tb2]

Full colour with a restricted palette. It's a feather from a guinea fowl - one of the most birdbrained birds I know!

Tony

For more info go to: http://photoreflect.blogspot.com/2008/01/feather.html

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Very well executed Tony, not quite your usual stuff. If I had a thought on it, I'd look to try a crop of some sort and see whether it works with only part of the feather showing.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

looks good, but the background is distracting and doesn't give good separation on the feathers, so they blend together.

 

[IndieMe]

Very nice colours,

I used to have 2 baby guinea fowl, they don't look to cute as they mature lol.

 

[tb2]

Thanks for the comments guys - your feedback is appreciated. Your idea is just what I started with when I shot this feather Chris, but I was less happy with those efforts than this one. Incidentally it makes a surprisingly good print - better than many of my images that I think are better. This isn't a "Wow" shot, just a straight down the line "look at this feather, isn't it simply beautiful" sort of shot. The background is intended to be complementary, adding a little texture, light and shade, emphasising the separate quills on one side and blending with them on the other.

Regards, Tony