First Post

[Lance van de Vyver]

Hi everyone, first post to introduce myself.

My name is Lance and Im a photographic guide. I was referred to this forum by Rachel Hollander.

Feel free to critique or just say hi. Look forward to being back on forums....its been way to long.

This image was taken in the last available light about 5 minutes after sunset...

ISO1600
Shutter 1/320
Aperture f/4
Spot Metering
Camera Canon 5dsr
Lens Canon 500mm f/4
Hand Held


https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8842/28915190334_645bbe17f8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/L48UGo)5DSR7225 (https://flic.kr/p/L48UGo)

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Lance - Glad you signed up and great to see you posting! I think you'll recognize some posters as well as some of the subjects in the Wildlife Forum. Intense eye contact and nice b&w treatment.

Rachel:wave:

[Hazel Grant]

First thought: great eye contact. Then, seems a bit dark, but then read what time of day it was. Then I noticed the tongue: great capture there.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Hey Lance, good to see you here!
Looking forward to your participation in the wildlife section.
Nice first post - intense stare and good mono treatment (see you've been rocking the B&W of late) :5

Touching on what Hazel said - I think you can dodge the highlights a bit more for better tonal contrast, it would make the lion "pop" a bit more as well. But let's leave the critique for the critique forum :t3

[Marina Scarr]

Big warm welcome to you, Lance. What an awesome image you've shared to introduced yourself!!! Looking forward to seeing more of your work.