A bird landed on a telephone wire in my driveway, but only stayed long enough to get one photo. I was hoping to get something more close-up, or clearer, but it was an “art photo” type of shot — so I was happy to get the composition and some raw material to work with.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20230719_183351-768x1024.jpg)
I wanted the image to be clearly about the bird on the wire, so I zoomed in and cropped away all be the tops of the trees.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_002.jpg)
I liked this composition too, but it still just looked like a poor quality photo.
Next I tried cropping it off-center into a tall narrow strip.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_007.jpg)
Not bad for some edge of page art, or to make something like a bookmark.
Next I tried a different cropping and adding dramatic lighting — getting really cheesy!
![bird on wire 11](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_011.jpg)
Next I tried some posterization effects to see if I could get something to pop.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_004.jpg)
…nope!
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_003.jpg)
Still nope! Neither one did anything for me, but it gave me the idea to posterize and reduce the palette to a few shades of blue.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_008-1.jpg)
I cropped out a rectangle with the bird just slightly off center — this was the type of simple “art” I was shooting for. Then reduced it down to square or circle so it could be used for a logo, avatar, or whatever.
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_009.jpg)
![](https://lexipixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rmh_bird-on-wire_010.jpg)
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