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Animals Critique ⇒ Dam Bird Study in Orange and Blue
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Dam Bird Study in Orange and Blue
I didn't so much notice the colors till I got it home, but I've seen it before under the dam - blue in the shadows and orange in the water after a hard rain. Which matches the colors of a blue heron perfectly. They were glad, today, to get back onto the perches for the first time in a month, and everyone who isn't in the rookery building or sitting on a nest came breame-fishing in the sunny weather. If you can't find a woman, you can always go fishing.
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good shot, also now I know what to say to fishermen!
Edit - also a good proof that light reflected from the sky (ambient light) should be cool color (blue) while something directly lit by the sun should be a warmer color. Well, not always... but if you are playing around with colors, it is not a bad thing to remember.
Edit - also a good proof that light reflected from the sky (ambient light) should be cool color (blue) while something directly lit by the sun should be a warmer color. Well, not always... but if you are playing around with colors, it is not a bad thing to remember.
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I"ve learned from the dam that (a) noon light is cold light, no matter how bright the sun is and (b) shadows captured by the camera are cooler/bluer than they seem to the human eye.PietFrancke wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 10:58 pmgood shot, also now I know what to say to fishermen!
Edit - also a good proof that light reflected from the sky (ambient light) should be cool color (blue) while something directly lit by the sun should be a warmer color. Well, not always... but if you are playing around with colors, it is not a bad thing to remember.
For this, and a few others I have done of the blue herons, I didn't try to mitigate these factors but actually enhanced them just a bit with color contrast.
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Terrific in every way possible. I can hear it! Deafening! Power! 

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Thanks Chuck. The dam birds are my greatest photographic fun.Charles Haacker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:18 amTerrific in every way possible. I can hear it! Deafening! Power!![]()
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