Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #62: Silhouettes
I know I have probably done more than enough of my bird silhouettes posts.
They are a passion that I haven’t done for a while so maybe posting a few of them will be inspiration to do some more. It is quite time consuming as I hand “colour” the edges almost each pixel at a time to get the desired black and white silhouette effect. I was selling framed photos at the markets when we had a stall as time permitted and they sold well.
Hope you enjoy these birds.
A Spangled Drongo
A Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
A Golden Whistler – This one took a lot of time
A Rainbow Bee Eater
A Red Wattlebird – This one took the most time to get it the way I wanted
The featured photo is a Pied Cormorant
Beautiful. It can be made into a poster or a wall mural.
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I haven’t tried to make them poster size. That would be interesting Teressa 🙂
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Wow Brian, these are exquisite! Interesting explanation about the painstaking process. Well worth the effort my friend
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Thank you Tina 🙂
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Oh, BRAVO – these are very nice! 🙂
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Thank you very much Tatiana 🙂
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These are fabulous!
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Thank you Sheree 🙂
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Wow! What patience! Worth it for such lovely results though.
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Thank you Margaret 🙂
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These are lovely! I’d queue to buy!
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Thank you Dawn 🙂
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A remarkable silhouette image, Brian!
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Thank you Amy 🙂
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I’ve no idea how you do these, but they look lovely. I’m very impressed.
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The process is complicated. First turn image into B&W, then get all the fuzzy areas, enlarge so you have pixels and use the black :pen” and make the outline of the subject a hard black line. Then make sure the white is white not grey and do the same so the black meets the white in a strong line. See simple as Tracy
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A might need a cold rainy day for a project like that. 😁
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and plenty of breaks as my hand gets sore from mouse control
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That’s important.
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Wow, Brian. Absolutely fabulous images. I see your explanation on you hand paint them, but I think I need an instructional video!! And you included Queen. A perfect post for me! Thanks!
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Thank you Patti 🙂 A video would be quite boring. Select black and pen size, find a grey pixel on the bird click. do the same for the white that is grey. Converting from colour to B&W doesn’t give instant resilts
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Interesting. Thanks!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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*results dammit.
PS Queen was the only song I thought of that had silhouette in the lyrics
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Especially love the red wattlebird. Pixel by pixel — will have to try that. Glad you are a fan of Bohemian Rhapsody, too! 😁
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Thanks 🙂 Give it a go. Time consuming but worth the effort. It was the only song with silhouette that I could think of 🙂 🙂
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Wow – gorgeous silhouettes! They could easily sit on my wall! The process must be hard though, thank you for the explanation.
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Thank you Ann-Christine 🙂 Yes it does take time
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Amazing results!
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Excellent silhouettes.
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Thank you John 🙂
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