Flight of a Plump

[bitublack]

What a view! White flowers stand out, PP or natural?

Thanks Mukund :). These are natural, although I have reduced saturation and played around with WB in pp.

[ISO]

What a view! White flowers stand out, PP or natural?

[bitublack]

It was taken in Shantiniketan, WB.

I am not an expert on the species, it looks like 'Kaash phool' to me. I am not sure if the season (late winter, February) is wrong for that.

[manindra_m]

Loved this..excellent

Came across this once more...is this pic taken in Pune or Bengal...is the foliage kashful aka kans grass ?
 

[bitublack]

Thanks Aroon. 🙂

[aroonkalandy]

Excellent capture!!!

[bitublack]

Thank you JessePinkmanYo, Manindra, Thad, Abhijit :) .

Fantastic Image.
The dark birds in grey background with the mist turning the foliage white make it look surreal. Almost like a design on fabric. One of those photos where things just "come together" !

Thank you for saying 'surreal'. It is very satisfying to see that you chose a word which was playing in my mind when I was lucky to experience that setting :) .

Interesting image. How would it look as a stark high contrast black and white?

Interesting suggestion, I considered this too.

Not the exact same composition, but here is a similar one where I did try it out.

IIRC, my thinking was that with those bright flowers filling 30% of the frame in the OP, the detail in the bright areas would grab all the attention, since I could not get my frame full of birds perfectly silhouetted against them. In the image below, OTOH, since I have more distant dark bg to work with, a high contrast BW does not cause the bg to interfere with the subjects.


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[Abhijit Rao]

Interesting image. How would it look as a stark high contrast black and white?

[Thad E Ginathom]

Beautiful. Love the light on the wings.

[manindra_m]

Loved this..excellent