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Photographed in 'natour criterium Aalst'. He won the race.
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Photographed this one yesterday.
The background effect has been generated through a combination of a slow shutter speed and a blurring through a relative big aperture. It is water in essence.
Touch up through postprocessing in Photoshop CS2; resize, adjustment layers(levels, contrast, saturation), highlights/shadows, selective USM sharpening and selective Gaussian blurring background with feathering.
Weather conditions at the time were quite unpredictable. Rainy, sunny, cloudy and so forth.

More info about the species here
Thanks....

Today...I want to learn or train myself in applying a filter in Photoshop.
Follow me and you'll be a very successful photo editor;-)....
Besides if you've overcome Mrs. Slocombe's pussy...don't worry about this one.

Starting image:
This beautiful lionesse I captured this month.

The above image is resized and sharpened for this blog.
What we do is the following:
We open the image in Photoshop; to apply a filter we're going to the filter menu.
There we find several submenu commands such as Blur, Sharpen and so forth...
Select the artistic submenu..apply the default 'dark strokes' settings...
Here you are...




Many other filters can be applied also third-party filters; the latter are filters delivered by non-Adobe software developers.

Merry Christmas!

A bit more advanced...
Load the image in Photoshop...
Choose image>Canvas site.
Take the color picker and search for a matching color in the image.
I took a light color; otherwise the color could be distracting.
For the width take for example 3 cm.
For Anchor click the square so the added canvas goes to the right side using the foreground color mentioned above.
For Text ...use the text editor from the palette.
Here you are...

Please do not take into account the black parts...
Questions..feel free to ask?

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2007!

Hornbills (family Bucerotidae) are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly coloured.


Both the common English and the scientific name of the family refer to the shape of the bill, "buceros" being "cow horn" in Greek.