Bluebird of Yesteryear (Stamped)

Here is the cropped version of the bluebird photo, without the HDR editing.

I processed the above image as a black and white stamp filtered image.

Here is the first image as it looks when processed for HDR. (Notice that the HDR processing brought out a lot of noise in the image.)

And here finally is the stamp-filtered version of the HDR image. The details on the bird are more pronounced than in the non-HDR version. I think that I like the bird better here but the background better in the other image. (Though, of the four, my favorite is the first image.)

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