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Photography => Photo Galleries => Topic started by: bitublack on January 08, 2025, 07:40:54 AM

Title: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 08, 2025, 07:40:54 AM
C&C welcome.

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Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: hvyas on January 08, 2025, 08:07:50 AM
Very nice capture !
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 08, 2025, 08:21:46 AM
Thank you Vyas-ji 🙂.
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: JessePinkmanYo on January 08, 2025, 10:17:53 AM
Fantastic Image.
The dark birds in grey background with the mist turning the foliage white make it look surreal. Almost like a design on fabric. One of those photos where things just "come together" !
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Post by: manindra_m on January 08, 2025, 12:08:36 PM
Loved this..excellent
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Post by: Thad E Ginathom on January 08, 2025, 11:42:12 PM
Beautiful. Love the light on the wings.
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Post by: Abhijit Rao on January 09, 2025, 03:45:07 PM
Interesting image. How would it look as a stark high contrast black and white?
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 11, 2025, 07:22:08 AM
Thank you JessePinkmanYo, Manindra, Thad, Abhijit :) .

Quote from: JessePinkmanYo on January 08, 2025, 10:17:53 AMFantastic Image.
The dark birds in grey background with the mist turning the foliage white make it look surreal. Almost like a design on fabric. One of those photos where things just "come together" !

Thank you for saying 'surreal'. It is very satisfying to see that you chose a word which was playing in my mind when I was lucky to experience that setting :) .

Quote from: Abhijit Rao on January 09, 2025, 03:45:07 PMInteresting image. How would it look as a stark high contrast black and white?

Interesting suggestion, I considered this too.

Not the exact same composition, but here is a similar one where I did try it out.

IIRC, my thinking was that with those bright flowers filling 30% of the frame in the OP, the detail in the bright areas would grab all the attention, since I could not get my frame full of birds perfectly silhouetted against them. In the image below, OTOH, since I have more distant dark bg to work with, a high contrast BW does not cause the bg to interfere with the subjects.

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Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: aroonkalandy on January 11, 2025, 10:50:08 AM
Excellent capture!!!
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 11, 2025, 11:03:17 AM
Thanks Aroon. 🙂
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Post by: manindra_m on January 13, 2025, 01:26:29 PM
Quote from: manindra_m on January 08, 2025, 12:08:36 PMLoved this..excellent

Came across this once more...is this pic taken in Pune or Bengal...is the foliage kashful aka kans grass ?
 
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 13, 2025, 08:41:05 PM
It was taken in Shantiniketan, WB.

I am not an expert on the species, it looks like 'Kaash phool' to me. I am not sure if the season (late winter, February) is wrong for that.
Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: ISO on January 14, 2025, 07:31:48 AM
What a view! White flowers stand out, PP or natural?





Title: Re: Flight of a Plump
Post by: bitublack on January 14, 2025, 08:11:12 AM
Quote from: ISO on January 14, 2025, 07:31:48 AMWhat a view! White flowers stand out, PP or natural?


Thanks Mukund :). These are natural, although I have reduced saturation and played around with WB in pp.
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