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09/23/2002 11:51:29 PM · #1 |
Normally I don't post outtakes because they're usually pretty bad quality photos (one day I'll get a better camera). But I have a feeling people will enjoy these ones :). There's a little spot in my city where you can go and bother a few kangaroos, and I really wanted to get a definitive photo of them to submit to this challenge, but they all turned out to have little flaws, and the (non-kangaroo) one I ended up submitting was somehow the best focussed, best exposed, best framed photo I've ever taken with this camera of mine (in my opinion, anyway, and it's rating just over 6, so I'm happy :)).
Here they are:
roo1.jpg - This is how most of my photos turned out... the light was bad and the camera mostly metered on the sky if I framed much of it so the ground was underexposed (in a few that I framed differently, the sky blew out, and I didn't catch the kangaroos in any interesting poses). Trying to fix it with curves/levels etc. in the gimp just made it look weird.
roo2.jpg - This one was well exposed, but I cropped it portrait out of a landscape photo, because there were some trees in the way, and my 1.3 megapixels aren't enough to do that. Unfortunately the kangaroo was moving too much for me to think carefully about framing.
roo3.jpg - This is probably the best, but the water in the background is blown out and the head seems slightly blurred (it must have moved). Also the tip of the tail and the toes are cut off (the toes were behind a tree, the tail just crept out of the photo, it was hard to frame it well because I was crouching under some low branches).
roo5.jpg - this is a landscape version of roo4.jpg (which I won't bother linking to). At that point I was alternating between framing landscape and portrait, but the yawn only lasted for one photo :(. So this has the same problem as roo2.jpg, lack of resolution.
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09/24/2002 12:02:13 AM · #2 |
| Great photo's Lisae. I liked roo3 the best also. Well done! |
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09/24/2002 03:11:41 AM · #3 |
These are great, I've never seen kangaroos in this way before, especially lying down.
I think my fave out of these is roo2.
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09/24/2002 11:52:45 AM · #4 |
This is the first time I've ever posted an outtakes thread, so I feel the need to bump it :).
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09/24/2002 11:55:51 AM · #5 |
Wow. Fun to see them (Kangaroos) like this.
Great shots. Thanks for posting. |
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09/24/2002 11:58:21 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by lisae:
This is the first time I've ever posted an outtakes thread, so I feel the need to bump it :).
My best memory of kangaroos was seeing herds of them, running wild.
I think there were about 100 or so - it was at sunset and they were
running along parallel to the road I was driving on.
No I didn't have a camera with me!
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09/24/2002 01:07:51 PM · #7 |
I went to a "wild safari" type petting zoo in Arkansas and they had some Kangaroo's. I got some nice shots of me feeding them (i had to get out of the wheelchair before they even considered coming over) by hand. They would all gather and keep a hand out or on me until I had no food left. That, and one of them must have smelled the McDonald's Chicken nuggets on my breath, identified me as a carnivore, and fled. Very funny!
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09/24/2002 02:16:11 PM · #8 |
I really like roo1, even with the burned sky... Did you try cropping closer to exclude the sky? His/her expression is priceless...
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09/24/2002 11:45:04 PM · #9 |
Well here's a version of another photo taken around the time of roo1, where I used a mask so I could do some processing only on the lower part, and I used the dodge tool on the kangaroo, and obviously cropped it outside DPC's rules. I think it looks nice like that :). A lot of the time I don't feel like it's worth it to do that kind of work on the photos I take with this camera, but that one turned out OK.
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