Hello people.

I am posting some of my recent bird photos. I have applied some "hand tinting" which is something I tried with non-bird photos in the past.

When I get the series onto my site I will post the link.

First one is a Superb Fairy Wren.

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo

Pardalote

Eastern Yellow Robin

Black Shouldered Kite

and a Red Browed Finch

Long before digital and photoshop were commonplace, I watched a photographer hand tinting his photos with brushes and paints. Quite a skill involved! There is tradition and nostalgia in there for me - and not just some modern day "fad".

For these I did not use an art history brush as queried by James, nor did I "bring back" the colours. My method involved a pretty steady hand and painstakingly "painting" colours of my own choosing in seperately (digitally). I did not want to use the exact colour of the birds real colouring.

The images arent black and white either, and this was deliberate, but the original coloring has certainly been "deadened".

Bird photography does not necessarily equate to blue skies and sunshine I have found! And I wanted to depict this. I am out in the great outdoors,in all kinds of weather, many grey skies and damp forests. When things are fairly "drab n dreary" around me.... and suddenly a darling little bird arrives on the scene, its a pretty special moment (and I have been known to cry!).

I am hoping my images relay this contrast (bright color/dull day) that I experience in my wildlife photography!

Thanks for looking!

They work quite well for me personally. I like the pardalote and the robin. It doesn't appear to affect just the colour, there is a smoother effect to the whole image?

I feel it gives the images are more....I'm not sure how to say it - as if I am secretely looking in on the bird. Maybe because the bird is isolated.

Not sure if that's what you wanted to depict!