The Starling was clearly shot in full sunlight, and it would be extremely difficult to get completely black shadows on the original raw image. Digital cameras have a very high dynamic range, ie they record detail over a very large range of brightness.
The Starling was clearly shot in full sunlight, and it would be extremely difficult to get completely black shadows on the original raw image. Digital cameras have a very high dynamic range, ie they record detail over a very large range of brightness.
I think that is the moon rather than the sun actually. If shooting against the moon (or sun) like that you would always have a pure silhouette unless you used fill-in flash to light the bird
I am sure it wasn't shot by moonlight! Moonlight is more than 100,000 times dimmer than sunlight, so a short exposure would be impossible. Pigeons are not nocturnal either.
A short exposure is definitley possible. A high ISO with a wide aperture, shooting directly into the moon would give you a silhouette. I speak from experience. It may well be the sun though, in which case you absolutely would get a silhouette and no shadow detail in the starling (which I think it is, but may be something else)
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