The Perfect Picture: Birds of Prey and Louis XIV Selfies

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 22:44 by Elja Trum | 6,395 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Tonight was the second episode of this season of The Perfect Picture. The celebrities were given two more assignments: photographing birds of prey and making a self-portrait in a Louis XIV setting.

Birds of prey

The first assignment was to take a photo of a bird of prey in its strength. The preference was for an action shot, but as a backup you could also take a powerful portrait.

Animal photographer Hennie van Heerden was there to give the contestants tips and help them during the shoot. If you would like to try it yourself, they visited Valkerij Het Muithuis in this episode.

The celebrities used a Canon EOS 90D DSLR for the shoot, combined with a 70-200mm f/2.8 telephoto lens. They soon found out that, despite this equipment, it was quite difficult to capture the fast birds of prey properly in flight.

Winning photo by Bibi
f/5, 1/2000s, 800 ISO
The winning photo was Bibi's. She photographed an owl in flight. Personally, I am not too impressed by this photo, but I don't think the jury was either. The results from this shoot were generally not very impressive.

» View all photos from the bird of prey shoot

Home assignment

This week's home assignment follows on from the first assignment: take an action photo of an animal. In the video below, Hennie van Heerden gives you tips in five steps on how to do this.

» Submit your photo

Louis XIV selfie

The second shoot was to make a self-portrait in the style of Louis XIV. The celebrities travelled to a beautiful country house for this and were given lovely 18th-century clothes and large wigs to wear.

We had seen fine art photographer Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk in The Perfect Picture before, and she came to help the contestants with this shoot. She was also the guest judge this week.

Winning photo by Bert
f/8, 1/160s, 1000 ISO
Bert's photo was the winner. In my view, quite rightly. A photo with beautiful light, an interesting pose and a lovely setting.

During this shoot, the contestants worked with the Canon EOS RP and a Canon RF 24-105mm f/4. With the handy automatic eye autofocus on this mirrorless camera, it was a handy choice.

» View all photos from the Louis XIV shoot

Exit for...

No contestant ever has to leave the programme in the first week, but from now on, the candidate with the lowest average score across the assignments leaves every week.

Patricia Paay had to leave the programme first this week.

Next week

Next week, the celebrities will capture life in the one-and-a-half-metre society, and it will be time for the traditional nude shoot.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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3 comments

albertr wrote on Monday 26 October 2020 at 13:57 | reply
Jammer, in dit artikel geen woord over het af te wijzen gebruik van roofvogels voor dit soort circus. Zie het standpunt van de Vogelbescherming en anderen op dit punt.
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Elja Trum wrote on Monday 26 October 2020 at 14:39 | reply
@Albertr; Ahja, ik heb op dit punt toevallig dan geen sterke mening om te verkondigen. Deze vogels worden -volgens mij- een stuk beter behandeld dan de gemiddelde kip.

Maar prima toch dat jij dit dan aanstipt in de reacties.
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Paul wrote on Tuesday 27 October 2020 at 13:33 | reply
Ik ben het helemaal eens met Albertr, roofvogels op die manier tergen zou al lang moeten verboden zijn.
Over de behandeling kan ik kort zijn, deze vogels worden uitgehongerd om deze kunstjes uit te voeren. Anders kiezen ze voor de vrijheid naar de natuur waar een trieste dood op hen wacht want ze hebben nooit leren jagen.
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