Black and white back to back

A couple of days ago, while I was out on a walk, I collected some leaves and grasses to take photos of.

This photo was created by taping a piece of white paper onto the window. David held the plant in front of the paper, which was backlit with direct sunlight and I took the photo, which with the lighting, made it into a silhouette.

In Photoshop I converted it to black and white played with the contrast and saved it. Then I inverted the colours and flipped it horizontally. Put the two pictures together in layers and saved it as a diptych. Quite pleased with the results. learnt a lot about layers today.

Today's birds photo in topics album http://365project.org/onewing/topics/2014-02-19

[Elaine]

Instant fav Babs, I love this and thanks so much for the description too. Good for you with the layers too. I have done some selective colour in layers now and quite pleased with myself too.

[Rachel]

Oh so clever Babs. I really want to try this - thanks for the description. It looks awesome, a fav from me!

[Lee-Ann]

Beautiful processing. I want to learn layers one day..just learning to edit at the moment is a start for me.

[Annie D]

love the processing - clever idea

[Keith Porteous]

great shot, lovely idea!

[Robyn]

Great contrast and symmetry. Love the processing

[sally agnew]

Wow , this looks spectacular Babs :-)

[Siw Aina Stromoy]

This is great

[Yao RL]

love the result of your process, I should try some time.

[Tracey]

Great image so creative

[Joey]

Beautiful and very creative

[Cathy Breen]

Great job, this would make an awesome canvas. Looks fantastic enlarged. Fav.

[Laurie F]

great job!!

[Ivan]

Super contrast, imaginative editing.

[jayn]

really nice. I like this a lot. thanks for the follow :-)

[Cassie]

A beautiful photo with a great description. Well done.

[Paula W]

Very striking shot Babs, what a great idea.

[Babs]

@elaine55 @888rachel Thanks so much to both of you and thanks for the fav too. I had fun with this one. It was lovely to just find some time to play without any interruptions.

[Babs]

@annied @kporte @flyrobin Thanks so much. I had fun with this one.

[Ian Watts]

Great job - so creative. Love it.

[Babs]

@leestevo Thanks. Layers is easy enough to do once you get the hang of it. I did this picture quite quickly now I know what I am doing.

[Babs]

@hermann @siwainastromoy @yaorenliu @tracelee @joeyc @lafish @ivan @jaynspain @cassiejoy @paulaw @iwatts Thanks so much. I had fun with this one. I love having the time to play about with a photo sometimes.

[Babs]

@cathy366 Thanks for the fav cathy. May think about a canvas.

[Raye]

wonderfully creative! Awesome FAV!

[Babs]

@sunraye Thanks so much for the fav. Raye. I am on a bit of catch up at the moment, been busy with photo club events.

[Sharon]

Very dramatic

[Babs]

@goosemanning Thanks Sharon. I had fun with this shot.

[Angela Tavan]

Beautifully done! Love the contrasts and the mirror image idea!

[Angela]

It's a super and striking shot! And well done David for getting involved- we get 'em all in the end...!

[Babs]

@angelat Thanks Angela. I got the idea of the silhouette from a magazine I read a while ago and then the idea of the inversion from yuor invert photos. thanks for your contribution to my photo.

[Babs]

@angelar Thanks Angela. David does come in useful sometimes, ha ha. We all have to pay the ferryman though, I help him with his photos sometimes too.