Squab

pie, anyone?

 

quite the most visually revolting creature. I will try and photograph it every couple of days and see if it improves. having called it revolting...it is actually quite good looking compared to its younger/smaller sibling

 

some info on the image:

it was shot with and extension tube from about 600mm distance, flash bounced off the wall to camera right and some upwards, but shielded from the bird and compensated by -2ev. If i knew what i was doing, i might have tried to just reduce the flash a bit, but i dont ;-)

photoshoppery, a few layers, a mask to leave his yellow fur, a monochrome channel mixed layer (pushes the contrast)(overlay), a B&W gaussian blurred layer (overlay)

and a layer for the vignette

Done