Banded Pitta. 

This is a study skin of a bird that I recently received from a friend of mine. Its a very beautiful bird and because it basically looks like its still alive, I thought it would be ideal to use in a quite emotional piece. I also love the colours and the way they stand out so much against each other, and decided it would make some good contrast for desaturated images, so I decided to make the image pictured below Grayscale. Another thing I thought what would make it work is the fact that theres quite a lot of contrast between my hand and the background, and the bird and the background. I like the coloured picture because it shows the colour, and just how beautiful the bird is

This is the photo in grayscale, maybe if I made the photo a little softer it would look better, but at the same time I really like the contrast. between the whites and the blacks. The grayscale gives the picture more emotion, and makes the bird look more alive.

I like the lighting on this piece, and the constrast between the blue and the orange/red feathers. I also like the way the darkness surrounds them, and how it looks like fire coming out of the dark. I may edit this piece to represent that more in the future.