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haaa i thought that swans dont perform when needed unless you sit waiting all day tho camera settings important too
S'easy. Catch bird, drug it, prop it in position you want against a plain background and Photoshop it against previously photographed background.
I can at last reveal the secret of my famous photograph 'Ostrich and Emu in aerial combat over Mount Everest'. The birds were caught and drugged and my assistant and I propped them up in an aerial fighting position. We then copied them in to a previously taken picture of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary standing on top with a net, trying to catch the birds.
For many years zoologists have debated the veracity of my picture, arguing that neither the ostrich nor the emu can fly, that even if they could, they couldn't fly at over 30,000 feet and they are unknown in Nepal anyway. Also that no evidence exists that Sir Edmund Hillary took a butterfly net on his successful Everest expedition or that in 1953 Sherpa Tenzing had a Panasonic GH2 camera with 100-300mm Panasonic zoom telephoto lens as the EXIF of the photo shows.
Like a sprinter who has succeed through drug abuse, I have long felt guilty that my photograph success was a lie and have chosen this moment to come clean to ePz readers. I have fooled the world for long enough. Pete Bargh offered me tens of thousands of pounds to tell ePz how I shot this celebrated photograph. He is a decent man and I felt driven to confess. That and the fact that I am sitting here with nothing to do while waiting for the train to France
Quote: S'easy. Catch bird, drug it, prop it in position you want against a plain background and Photoshop it against previously photographed background.
I can at last reveal the secret of my famous photograph 'Ostrich and Emu in aerial combat over Mount Everest'. The birds were caught and drugged and my assistant and I propped them up in an aerial fighting position. We then copied them in to a previously taken picture of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary standing on top with a net, trying to catch the birds.
For many years zoologists have debated the veracity of my picture, arguing that neither the ostrich nor the emu can fly, that even if they could, they couldn't fly at over 30,000 feet and they are unknown in Nepal anyway. Also that no evidence exists that Sir Edmund Hillary took a butterfly net on his successful Everest expedition or that in 1953 Sherpa Tenzing had a Panasonic GH2 camera with 100-300mm Panasonic zoom telephoto lens as the EXIF of the photo shows.
Like a sprinter who has succeed through drug abuse, I have long felt guilty that my photograph success was a lie and have chosen this moment to come clean to ePz readers. I have fooled the world for long enough. Pete Bargh offered me tens of thousands of pounds to tell ePz how I shot this celebrated photograph. He is a decent man and I felt driven to confess. That and the fact that I am sitting here with nothing to do while waiting for the train to France
I KNEW IT !!!!
I had the chance for a wander along Mudeford Quay for 30 minutes or so this morning and remembered this thread, so thought I'd have a play with some gull shots using my normal technique described above.
These are 6 of the 9 gull shots I took + one of a sequence of shots of a swan stretching:
No stuffed birds got wet during these shots and the only "Luck" involved was my deciding to go for a wander there this morning. Otherwise it was pretty much a normal morning's shoot on the quay 
Quote: I can at last reveal the secret of my famous photograph 'Ostrich and Emu in aerial combat over Mount Everest'. The birds were caught and drugged and my assistant and I propped them up in an aerial fighting position. We then copied them in to a previously taken picture of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary standing on top with a net, trying to catch the birds.
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