Grey Heron Silhouette #1

Posted by Japper on Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:56 am

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About three years ago, Dan Creighton posted some silhouettes of some deer on a hill-site. He didn't use the auto whitebalance tool for it but chose a manual setting instead which resulted in very nice blue colors. When I saw these photographs I was amazed that such things were possible with digital photography. Yesterday I saw this Grey Heron sitting along the water...but in a very backlit situation and then I thought about the whitebalance. I put in on Tungsten and got this really nice blue background. Later in Capture One I manually changed the whitebalance to this warm color.

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by AForns on Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:07 am

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Thanks for the information. That is what I call making something good out of not much at all. Very creative. Color combination works well.

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by Jerry Merrell on Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:30 am

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Jasper, I like the action you captured here and the composition of this silhouette. I also found your website to be very interesting.

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by AlexC on Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:16 pm

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Japper, lovely image and very nice composition, love the colors and the silhouette as well, if you shoot in RAW the WB is always changeable in the end to fill your needs, one of the many advantages of shooting raw!!
Congrats!!, Well done!!

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by george forrest on Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:29 pm

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Nice silhouette image with a plus, i.e., the open beak. Well done Japper.

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by LindaY on Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:03 pm

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Very well done silhoutte. The warm background color is a plus and I love the crisp, sharp edges of the silhouttes. The open beak is a real plus too.

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by Juli Wilcox on Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:18 am

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Hi Japper---a very nice, sharp sil!! I like how the lines of the beak are repeated by some of the lines in the grass on the left.

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