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Subject: [Leica] [LRflex] IMG: Great Blue Heron
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:17:55 +0100
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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
>
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