Photos

I've got loads of swan pictures, I'm lucky to live a very short distance away from a nature reserve, so plenty of photo opportunities arise.

This is one of my favourites, the swan looks in a world of its own, thinking thoughts we can't even begin to imagine.

Unfortunately it wasn't one of the sharpest of images when I loaded it into the pc, so rather than discard it I decided to turn its softness into an advantage.

By duplicating the image onto a new layer, and making this an adjustment layer, then using the threshold filter to create a pure black and white copy, which was then blurred, changing its properties to screen and its opacity to around 30% I created the dreamy surreal glow to the swans pure white plumage, which blended in nicely with the general softness of the image.