Aaaggghhhhhh!!!! I am with your daughter......as you well know! But I have to credit you with a fantastically done silhouette of my worst nightmare 🙀 Good job!
@casablanca I truly appreciate your bravery at even looking at him!! LOL... He was too good to pass up - silhouetted against the sky at my son's house. Fortunately my daughter didn't see him in real life!! Cheers Rob
@sarahlth Hi Sarah -drat - I didn't think properly when I uploaded him! I might just change his date if I can't find something else. Thanks for reminding me... :)
@caterina Thanks for all of your nice remarks Caterina - and for the fav!
It was lucky that he was a nice, big specimen in a great position. Cheers Rob
@taffy Hi Taffy -Actually, I have you to thank for this photo and lots of other recent ones. After your suggestion about the spot - metering and the moon shots I've played with it quite a lot. The moon idea was magic - and it's so handy to be able to isolate one point of interest from the background! So thank you so much for your continues interest and helpful comments. And he was really quite a friendly fellow - unless you were my daughter! :)
I am absolutely intrigued...how did you get this image so that the black is so isolated...and reading above...can you refer me to Taffy's comments that were so helpful, please...thank you. I love this community.
@granagringa No worries Madelaine - A few months ago I tried a photo of our shed using the spot metering ( ) Taffy commented on it that the spot metering would help with photos of the moon as it cuts out the bloom effect around the moon. I've just played with it since and it's really useful for isolating the spotted object from the background. With this one I did an edit to darken the shadows and midtones and brighten the highlights and increase the contrast - that got rid of all the background. Unfortunately, I don't know how any of this translates to a real camera..... Cheers Rob
@granagringa I forgot to tell you that this only had pale blue sky as a background. I had already cloned out a few tree branches. If there's more "stuff' in the background I sometimes use the "dodge and burn" tool to lighten it all first ( I find the clone tool a bit harder to use well) - then do the all of the above. :)
It was lucky that he was a nice, big specimen in a great position. Cheers Rob