Colourful splendour: The eye of the peacock feather

by Marjolijn van den Berg

This photograph, "Colourful splendour: The eye of the peacock feather," is a macro photograph of a beautiful peacock feather. When framing this photograph, I chose to photograph half of the feather, ensuring that the green stripes of the feather were also clearly visible.
The way I lit this feather ensures that the colours of the feather come across beautifully and shine in this image.
Most of the work involved in creating this photo was cleaning the feather and post-processing. I tried to remove all the distracting dust and bits and pieces, and when that didn't work in real life, I did it digitally. If you zoom in on the photo, you can see this clearly. The good special lens I used created a very sharp image, allowing you to see the details beautifully. You can see with the naked eye that the feather is divided into lines, but if you look closely, these lines also have lines.
I would describe the colours in this work as chic and natural: ranging from moss green, turquoise, light blue and dark blue.

Thanks to the warm and chic colours, this work would look beautiful in almost any interior.
©Marjolijn van den Berg