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I quite like it too, but I suppose its down to individuals taste. Some said the bckground is too cluttered

John

To me when the back ground takes ur eye from the main subject then it becomes too cluttered
Ken

far to much back ground and i prefair to see a bird not been done up by photo shoot it makes the bird look like somthing its not in real life better with a natural pik

spot on for me mate well done really nice

i prefer the union jack type rather than the usual cloud version john, with this type you can fade the background so the bird is the main feature of the photo..........

dont wish to be cheeky but it would be nice for our show winners to be re done like this.

yes what a good idea

ian wrote:

yes what a good idea

ill bet there was a few thinking the same thing eh ian, but just wasnt cheeky enough to ask like me...............

yes i guess , never crossed my mind

johnny11 wrote:

This was another I did. This has been edited. I know the ring ideally should have been on the facing foot. The photo is taken by me.

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now that ones is nice very smart

not too keen on the back ground on this one to be honest, but it does show the bird off properly.........maybe a light blue back ground would have been better. having said that tho the pictures are all very good.

what is the software you use for this johnny

friend of mine who isnt a pigeon fancier showed me how to do this on something called photoshop, it seemed easy to do but then again he is pretty good with computerds but i dont think its to hard to get the hang of it altho as john says it is time consuming and takes quite a bit of patience to do one..........

also if you go onto photoshop you can download something called gimp which is frre and you can make site banners and all sorts of things including these type of photos......

Yeah photoshop but it aint cheap and not easy to get hold of by other means if you knoww hat i mean

busy downloading it now is it cs5 version

ian wrote:

busy downloading it now is it cs5 version

have you tried it yet ian ? do us a picture...........

Johnny that union jack photo is spot on mate nothing wrong with that first class

Watch this space here we go

Ian you going to put all your superstars on here now lets see how many fed winners you get next year now you have this soft ware on your computer

johnny11 wrote:

This was another I did. This has been edited. I know the ring ideally should have been on the facing foot. The photo is taken by me.

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nice looking bird john, you said you took it yourself.....what breed of bird is it ? thanks.

Don Webb wrote:

Ian you going to put all your superstars on here now lets see how many fed winners you get next year now you have this soft ware on your computer

what a sarcastic p###k you are don , think ill get a few more wins than you

Hi CS5 is the most up to date version and the hardest one to use apparently.

I have the poor mans version CS2. It will take you weeks if not months to get used to it. It depends how much time you can devote to learning it

the bird is a Kaid pigeon...someone on here said its a staf van reet origin

John

I said it before, and i'll say it again, your pictures look amazing.

yes spot on johnny

Thanks for the positive comments guys. I did some last year for one of our local ace fanciers using his own pigeon photo. I will post them later but the pigeon photo lets it down slightly.

I may re do them now as I have got better with the cutting out of the original image but the pigeon itself was a fantastic racer and is now a fantastic breeder