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Great Blue Heron With Snake

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Eric Diller

New member
GBH flying off with breakfast.
Shot at:
500mm, F4.8, 1/1600sec, Iso 400




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Don Cohen

Guest
Cool shots, Eric! Very unusual! Excellent exposure.

I have mixed feelings about the square cropping, although I suspect the original might have limited your options. It's tough keeping flying birds in the frame at all, let alone, where in the frame they are!
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Eric
These are beautifull images.

I couldn't resist for a little quick and dirty play… If you don't like it, just PM me and I'll delete it.
But I would really hope for a big laugh…

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Eric Diller

New member
#8
Today, 05:13 PM
Nicolas Claris
OPF Administrator/Moderator



Not at all...that was one of the coolest things I have seen in awhile. Would love to know how you did that!
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Eric Diller said:
#8
Today, 05:13 PM
Nicolas Claris
OPF Administrator/Moderator



Not at all...that was one of the coolest things I have seen in awhile. Would love to know how you did that!
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Hi Eric
Easy, but I'm going to a long day work, will post a short explanation tonight…
Have a good flight (and breakfast BTW) until then!

PS. If you click on the "Quote" button you will get the message you want to reply to embeded and quoted into your reply… See just above in this post.
 
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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
Eric Diller said:
Would love to know how you did that!
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Hi Eric,

To save Nicolas the time, and you the wait; he combined multiple images into an animated "gif" file.

The more recent versions of Photoshop make it easier to do than earlier versions (which required a companion program ImageReady, IIRC), so the actual instructions how to do it oneself vary by version. Other photoeditors also offer similar functionality but I'm not familiar with their specifics.
Search the help function for "animated GIF" if you want to explore.

You basically layer the individual images, optionally resize, and register to reduce differences besides motion, then convert into GIF.

The GIF file format, although offering fewer colors (256 max.), does offer some benefits like good browser support, transparancy, and animation (although crude and inefficient, but it does work).

Bart
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Of course you nailed it Bart!
I used 1st CS3 to get one image over the othe one as a layer.
Then I aligned vertically the flying guy.
Cropped both images together
Did a quick and (dirty!) selection of "each" bird, then cut & paste each as a new layer
Chose one of the background and did a horizontal blurr ('bout 100 pix)
Dupmicated that background and paste each bird on one of the similar BG

Saved as PSD the completed file containing the "2" birds

Opened that PSD in Image Ready
Set a duration of 0.3 sec to each layer/frame
Saved as an image et voilà…

Took me about 15 minutes…
 
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