{"id":2549,"date":"2013-03-14T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2549"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:54:38","slug":"choosing-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/choosing-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Just four photos today, each showing a fairly standard portrait of a duck. The poses differ (inevitably) but the most distinctive feature of each shot is the background colour. In each case I was fortunate to have the duck well in the foreground so that I could use a wider aperture which helps smooth the background while retaining the main detail. Picking backgrounds is an important part of getting a shot.  Things to look for are colour, contrast, and wherever possible a clean, uncluttered space that doesn&#39;t intrude on the subject. <\/p>\n<p>In this first shot, the background is predominantly green (grass) with a hint of yellow (narcissi). The duck did pose nicely for this shot, which is a bonus.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/duck_1403135239.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Next is a duck against a pale blue (sky) background. That it happens to be perched on the top of a tall hedge (6 foot plus), is also a bonus.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/duck_1403135257.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The next shot is the same duck in the same position. I wanted a stronger background colour and spotted a house in the distance. This provided a nice terracotta backdrop, easily blurred because of the distance the duck and the building.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/duck_1403135279.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final shot is a pair of ducks. Once again a decent pose with a nice difference in height of the two ducks, and a lemon\/yellow with hints of green background (strong sunlight on the bank of the pond).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/duck_1403135352.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[1160,40],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-photography","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}