[guerito]

I was bored playing with my camera in the garden, just by chance I looked up.



BTW one of the birds is faked due to compositional considerations. Can you see which one?

[Toad]

My guess would be the rear bird. I think I see a hint of clone smudging behing his lower wing (that doesn't necessarily mean faked of course). I think he is a copy of the second bird from the left.

Could be the other way around as well, I suppose...

[jericho]

Love the formation, cloned or not

[guerito]

Keen as always, Toad! It's actually the other way round, I copied the left bird in as there was too big a gap between him and the first two birds. I thought I could disguise this by cloning the feet of the foremost bird into the copy.

The smudging comes from expanding the picture to the left and right - it was not so visible in the original size. It's a pity, really, they were too fast. I couldn't get a decent composition before they went out of sight behind the house.

[Toad]

Yes - I noticed that the feet were different - and even noticed that the cloned bird's feet were the same as the lead bird - but the smudging mislead me away from the obvious conclusion.

Hint for faking this sort of thing in the future - the reason I could limit it to the 2 rear birds in the first place is the identical light highlight on the body under and behind the wing.

I love doing this sort of manipulation - although many find it devious...

[Petographer]

I like the change in compisition. Who cares about cloning. It's legal when done in photoshop.

[shuttertalk]

Heheh nice one G! Love the composition and cloning...

[EnglishBob]

Nice adjustment, switching out the feet really had me fooled.