Sunday, 1 March 2009

Choose your background

Young Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) in Flatanger, Norway

Lately I have been spending a lot of time in Adobe Lightroom, indexing my images, after a accident ereasing all my keywords. Now my main focus is the Svalbard trip in March and also developing images for my Grey Seal book, which is due in May.

While going though my archives I came across three images of a young Herring Gull from Flatanger, Norway, photographed with three different houses as background. The images in them selves are not the greatest. However, it showes the importance of keeping an eye on the background. For me, the background is as importaint as the subject itself. A badly selected background can ruin the image totally. So I just wanted to show you how different the same subject,bird, can look with three differently coloured backgrounds. Temperature, tint and exposure is fixed in all of these images, but the difference is still striking. So - background, background, background!!! It will make the picture.

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