About the Image(s)

Panasonic Lumix FZ330 Bridge camera
F2.8, 1/640sec, 108mm (600mm equivalent), ISO100. Hand held
I took this through the glass window of my bedroom carefully poking my camera in between the closed curtains as to not the disturb this rook, of which I have never seen one in my garden before. I was impressed with it size and felt how intimating it would be for the usual small garden birds. It seemed to be surveying the land and planning its next move. I wondered whether in the editing I could create something dark in mood with the barb wire fence being in the shot. I focused on getting as sharp image as possible and not to blow out the whites as the bright morning sun was shining on it, knowing I was going to add textures in editing later. It was one of those quick captures.
I processed it in LR in the basic panel, denoised and sharpen it. Then over to PS where I selected and masked the rook and fence (keeping this at the top of my layer stack. On a duplicate layer of the original layer, I removed the subjects with the remove tool and use gaussian blur/smart object. From my texture collection, I added 2 out of focus garden leaves/flowers images and a dark sky image using different blends modes and opacities. Some adjustment layers were added too. To finish a final pinkish texture layer over the whole image.