{"id":14133,"date":"2012-11-04T01:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T08:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2020-02-22T00:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T00:36:27","slug":"its-the-time-of-the-season-for-bird-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=14133","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Time of the Season … for Bird Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Without even a wisp of autumn air, Seattle dipped from summer to storm, from a prolonged swelter to a premature December gray, leaving me damp and unrequited. In eighty days without droplets and dew, the Emerald city turned topaz and so dry that even the pigeons<\/a>, normally preening under nimbostratus showers, looked haggard for the heat.<\/p>\n

All I wanted was autumn — and a crisp Washington apple and, maybe, a flight of leaves and a pumpkin ale. But October was slippery underfoot, where the leaves don’t fly, they just stick to your boots along with the promises of autumn renewal. In other words, I crashed fast — past any hint of autumn — into my seasonal monochrome, shooting in dusky skies, mist and toward backlit silhouettes.<\/p>\n

Here are a few new additions to Bird Noir<\/a>, my collection of urban birds, and birds against films and vapors … in the diffused light and denuded landscape of a Seattle winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of these images were shot with the Olympus OM-D + Lumix 100-300mm, my light-as-a-necklace walkabout gear. I deliberately photographed birds in silhouette, knowing I would process the images into black-and-white in Nik’s Silver Efex Pro<\/a>. When I’m going for creative effect, I don’t use any one particular filter in Nik. I tend to layer processes and choose the tones and treatments that, to my eye, best suit that particular photo. I’ll sometimes further process a B&W shot in Nik’s Color Efex Pro for some nuanced tweaks with the very useful control-point editing feature. (Thanks to my photography friend Britta for first turning me onto Nik’s apps a couple years ago.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t Fence Me In<\/strong><\/p>\n

(American Crow at the Ballard Locks<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Crow<\/p>\n

The “Owl” and the Pigeon<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Fake Owl and real pigeon in Tacoma, WA)<\/p>\n

\"Pigeon<\/p>\n

\u00a0Cormorant Snags<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Double-crested Cormorant perched over the Ballard Locks<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Cormorant<\/p>\n

Leave No Wake<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Double-crested Cormorants on Puget Sound near Seattle)<\/p>\n

\"Cormorants<\/p>\n