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 03/16/2005 07:27:15 PM · #1
Toronto Zoo today and the lighting wasn't great...Tried my best with these images and the focus is a little soft for my liking.



Would like to get some comments and see even with the issues above, are they worthy of framing for my office. Any help is appreciated.
 03/16/2005 07:28:43 PM · #2
I think they are great. For some reason the 2nd picture seems a little blurry.

Anybody else?
 03/16/2005 07:29:00 PM · #3
Going to leave comments. Give me ten minutes
 03/16/2005 07:29:26 PM · #4
Great pics! I would have to say that i enjoy the monkey one the best... the lighting seems better and the focus is beter thn the other two... nice job!
 03/16/2005 07:34:05 PM · #5
nice photos! since you asked for a critique: in tiger photos the white fur seems to be a little bit blown, more detail there would be nice. And in the monkey picture, the rope/log arrangement in the foreground is in focus and therefore a bit distracting, a slightly different composition/crop/DOF could help there.
 03/16/2005 07:37:23 PM · #6
Left some comments. Good work.
 03/16/2005 07:39:16 PM · #7
Did you adjust the brightness/contrast and saturation on the tiger shots? The white near the mouth seems blown and in general they have a very in your face heavy color saturation. If the blown area is due to contrast then try and tweak it without going to that extreme so there is still some details. If you shot RAW you may be able to adjust the EV as well. If that was just the harsh lighting then there isnt really anything you can do. I'd just at least trying to desaturate the color some to give it a little more subtle color, it may help with some of the harsh light.

The mandrills are cute but the image suffers with 1) being a little dark around their eyes, and 2) the background. You could try dodging around their eyes a little and maybe even trying a vignette around the background so the manmade structure (bolts) are hidden and it darkens the surroundings so as to put more focus back on the animals.
 03/16/2005 07:49:55 PM · #8
Originally posted by moodville:
Did you adjust the brightness/contrast and saturation on the tiger shots? The white near the mouth seems blown and in general they have a very in your face heavy color saturation. If the blown area is due to contrast then try and tweak it without going to that extreme so there is still some details. If you shot RAW you may be able to adjust the EV as well. If that was just the harsh lighting then there isnt really anything you can do. I'd just at least trying to desaturate the color some to give it a little more subtle color, it may help with some of the harsh light.

The mandrills are cute but the image suffers with 1) being a little dark around their eyes, and 2) the background. You could try dodging around their eyes a little and maybe even trying a vignette around the background so the manmade structure (bolts) are hidden and it darkens the surroundings so as to put more focus back on the animals.


Wow...great feedback...I will definately play with these some more. Thanks.
 03/16/2005 07:52:14 PM · #9
Thanks everyone for some great feedback... Keep it coming.

Here is a another tiger shot (the first tiger's daddy).



Message edited by author 2005-03-16 19:52:26.
 03/16/2005 08:33:04 PM · #10
Originally posted by rmtm333:
Thanks everyone for some great feedback... Keep it coming.

Here is a another tiger shot (the first tiger's daddy).



The face is a little dark but this is punctuated by the very bright rocks on the side. Eyes generally tend to go to the lightest part of an image first and so the rock tends to dominate the image. You cant really crop it out so you could try and conceal it using a mixture of curves and burning or else chalk it up to experience. Other than the light and the rock this is the better face of the three tiger shots.
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