In this week’s assignment for her 2020PhotoChallenge Jude is asking us to use strong backlighting to create a contre-jour image where the subject becomes a silhouette.
Contre-jour, French for against daylight, is a photographic technique where your camera is pointing directly toward a source of light. As everyone will have told you from when you were a young age though neither you nor your camera should look directly at the sun! So I’ve gone out at my favourite time of the day, dawn. In those few moments between nautical and civil twilight, whilst you await the sun to appear above the horizon, what little light there is creates fabulous silhouettes enabling us to capture the shape rather than the details.
The first shot is my favourite but I had to also include the one above because of the Egret!
Both are beautiful, but I do love the soft colours in the second photo.
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They’re so gentle aren’t they ☺️
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Lovely! Silhouette romance…
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If only MrB was an early bird too!
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😃🙃
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Nothing beats a good sunset – beautiful photos Becky, and the dark shading gives more drama to the colour. I am having a problem with viewing my posts on the Reader. Could you please let me know if you see my latest one I published today, thanks Becky 🙂
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Thanks Suzanne 😃 (although is a sunrise!)
And yes of course, I’ll go and check xx
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Whoops sorry 🙄🙂
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Not many bonkers people like me who get up for sunrise, so understandable!!
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I do on a regular basis though mostly I’m still inside holding onto my precious first long black 🙂
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Gorgeous!
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Was a lovely morning ☺️
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Very good, Becky!
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Thanks Sue
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😊😊
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Such beautiful images.
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Thank you so much
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I thought the egret was a star, too.
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He/she is rather special. Was so happy when I spotted it
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The first one is gorgeous, and you have described using back-light so well. I had to enlarge the other photo to see the egret, at first glance it looks like you cut his head off, but I see he is just hunkering down. 😁
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Awww thanks Jude 🙂
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PS as if I would crop a bird’s head!!!
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Hidden by the girders or whatever they are. 😊
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Flipping gangways!
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Oh, OK. Can’t tell on the phone. Could you have cropped in tighter to the bird?
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I could but then I would have lost the horizon. Maybe I’ll have a play
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Both of the photos are beautiful Becky!! Love it!
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Thank you so much 🙂
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Those are absolutely gourgeous..
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awww thank you so much 🙂
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Lovely images. You must have had Inside Information about Jude’s theme as you’re on the case so quickly!
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No inside link 😁 she’s posted all 52assignments…..check out the second link in my post, or visit her home page and click on 2020PhotoChallenge in the menu bar.
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Ah. Now that’s intelligent. Thanks.
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It has helped me enormously this month, even have next week’s drafted. Don’t dare schedule until I have seen hers!!!
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Oooh, I must start cheating too!
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Being prepared I call it!
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Lovely images. I like the top one particularly, but agree with you that the heron is worth a photo.
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Thanks Graham. That first one did work so well ☺️ as you say though who can resist a member of the heron family! It’s a Little Egret, and in silhouette it is so obvious they are herons with that hunched outline.
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Plus herons just hunker down in one spot, allowing photographers to mess about with the settings and frame different shots in the search for the perfect image!
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Not this one!
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Have you changed your theme? Your ‘double Header’ effect is great. And what a fabulous view you had on your doorstep. It misses you! As do I 🙂 🙂
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Well spotted I have indeed. Still not 100% sure I went with right one, but the header effect I love so will probably stick with this for now 😄
We’re missing this doorstep view so much, although not sure I’d cope with the 30degrees plus!
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Hoping it’ll not be for long. My phone suggests only 27C today, but who knows. Evening beach walk instead is the plan. 🙂 🙂
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Sounds lovely ☺️
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