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Silvereye on white<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last week I wrote about controlling and simplifying backgrounds<\/a> to feature the bird as the focus of the image. What you exclude from an image often adds more than what you include – less is usually more when it comes to the bird images I strive for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we go the next level and exclude everything from the background by pushing it to white. I have always been inspired by the painted illustrations in bird guides and seek out opportunities to recreate this look photographically and feature some in my Birds on White Gallery<\/a>. In nature this usually relies on finding a flat grey sky or its reflection in smooth water. Neither of these opportunities arise in a backyard setup so I needed to make a background that I could use to achieve the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White background cloth hung behind the perch with lower edge weighted with an aluminium tube.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The simplest way to achieve this was to hang a piece of white cloth from branches behind the perch and weight it with a metal tube. This gave a smooth surface that didn\u2019t flap or wrinkle in a breeze. Setting my exposure manually to achieve +2 stops when metered off the cloth gave me a clean white background to the image. The birds were a little wary at first but soon ignored the addition and the above photo was actually taken with my Fuji X100F standing in full view just a couple of metres from the bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silvereye<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bird photos with Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm f4VR lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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