Snow Monkey Portrait

[Charles Glatzer]

This image is copyrighted material as indicated, and is watermarked!

Japan

I kept this image as natural looking as possible.

I am greatly looking forward to returning to Japan next Jan.

1Ds Mark III , 24-70 @ 62mm
Manual, Spot 1/320 @ f/8, ISO 400
Post-production- CS5, NIK

See you where there is light, or at the computer

Chas

[Morkel Erasmus]

wonderful portrait Chas...nice expression and you can feel the cold :)

what post-processing did you do in NIK?

[Hilary Hann]

Excellent portrait. Wish I had your skills with spot metering. The detail and quality of this image is outstanding.

[Sid Garige]

Fantastic portrait Chas. Excellent work.

[Robert Amoruso]

Love the image Chas but hate Snow Monkeys. Ask me sometime why. ;)

[Gen Benjamin]

looks like me in the morning!
seriously wonderful image, hope I get to see them and capture them as well as you have here.
Gen

[Rachel Hollander]

Chas - beautiful image. Love the comp. Talk about a bad hair day!

TFS,
Rachel

[Grace Scalzo]

Such a wonderful image, something haunting about his eyes and the connection that he's making with you.

[Austin Thomas]

A cracker Chas,

High impact image.

Cheers

Austin

[Charles Glatzer]

wonderful portrait Chas...nice expression and you can feel the cold :)

what post-processing did you do in NIK?

Morkel,

I use the NIK Collection.

For this image I used Color Effex Pro 3 - Tonal Contrast, Brillance and Warmth, White Neutralizer.
Define for noise reduction.
Sharpening is done via an Edge mask and Blend IF Action.

Best,

Chas

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Hi Chas,
Lovely looks. The hair spikes has come out well. You seem to be pretty close (62mm in a full frame camera). How do they react to such close presence? Are they used to humans? I would love to go to this place sometime. Not sure when it will happen. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Charles Glatzer]

Hi Chas,
Lovely looks. The hair spikes has come out well. You seem to be pretty close (62mm in a full frame camera). How do they react to such close presence? Are they used to humans? I would love to go to this place sometime. Not sure when it will happen. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

The animals are completely habituated allowing very close approach.

Chas

[Danny Laredo]

Chas, this is super.
Cannot wait to get there myself.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Chas,
Outstanding!!! Very unusual and very well done!:cheers:

The face and hair just cracked me up......I need to show my sons what thier bed head looks like!

[Andrew Aveley]

a superb portrait of a most interesting subject. The eye contact makes the intensity even more pronounced.