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\O Peej!


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Here is a backlit Pale Chanting Goshawk for you RP. \O
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:-0 :-0 :-0 Deli!


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So here is another example of shooting into the light - early morning light.
I was at Kirstenbosch with two fellow members from the camera club when I overheard one of them saying "look at the beautiful protea, pity it is straight into the light"
I told them that "bad light" is not an excuse to not take a photo - one just needs to think about it differently.
To demonstrate - I bent lower down to take photo from a lower angle looking up more into the "bad light" and clicked away. I was in manual mode and I over exposed. :) I have added a vignette in post process to emphasise the dreamy soft look of the photo.
There really is no such thing as bad light...just get creative. :)
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Very interesting effect, Michele! ^Q^ :ty:

What is a vignette? :o0ps:


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adding a vignette is either lightening, blurring or darkening the corners....

From google.......In photography and optics, vignetting (/vɪnˈjɛtɪŋ/; French: "vignette") is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center.


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Your "artichoke" protea is beautiful. Looks like something out of a pastel coloured dream ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^ Could be a Monet in his early years ;-)


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Wow .... that is very very good ^Q^ ^Q^


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Thx Lisbeth and Okie....:) :)


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Very pretty! \O


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