Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A wonderful painterly effect Doug - you've found out a new way to get rid of the background and to set the bird out so beautifully. Now, it also seems you were lucky there was no or so little wind ;-) Great, great, great catch my friend. Thanks for sharing not only the result but also the technique. Bien amicalement de Metz Philippe Le 17 janv. 11 ? 22:05, Doug Herr a ?crit : > > The local fish hatchery's resident Great Blue Heron has been very > cooperative but the backgrounds and lighting have not been. > Yesterday I tried unusual (for me) technique: > > I used a tripod > I used the camera's base ISO > I stopped the lens down to f/19 > I used rubber muck boots > I used mirror pre-release and self timer > I used a 1/2 sec shutter speed. > > There were 2 ideas behind the 1/2 sec shutter speed. First, I > wanted to reduce the contrast of the flowing water, and second, I > wanted to contrast the heron's motionlessness with the flowing > water. The rubber muck boots were so I could stand in the stream > without soaking my feet. I did this to get a jumble of rocks out of > the background. > > What do you think? (klicken Sie the Picture to embiggen the Pixels) > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/gbhero04big.jpg > > R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO > > All comments and critique welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > NO ARCHIVE