Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
I revisited some of my files from India and ended up with a very different interpretation from similar files submitted. The sun was extremely bright and itwas slightly hazy.
Steve, Andreas, I suspect you will see some magenta in the grasses at the water line (??), I had a look and see much difference removing magenta in the raw file.
Olympus EM1X
Olympus 40-150 (300mm ff equiv)
ISO1250 EV+1.7, 1/1600sef f5.6
ACR/PSCC
Last edited by Jonathan Ashton; 10-07-2022 at 04:48 PM.
Hi Jon, I quite like the symmetry, but is it you use a pre crop or something as you have this obsession with more above and too little at the foot???? I think going more pano with equal amounts top and bottom will look better, hopefully you have more content below?
I would darken the reflection/FG and adding a Midtown Curves and a Darks Levels I think adds, but for whatever reason the new MacBook Pros seem to display images at their true native size, so your 1900px is around 5 inches!!! Also these screen look like 4k screens, less than idea for PP work, nature never looks like this.
TFS
Steve
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Steve the crop is 4:3 on the sensor I don't think the image was cropped if so minimally. No more room below. Maybe a little higher in the frame would have been better - the image was taken from a moving boat. No obsession with positioning!
The suggestions regarding reflection sound good... regard the Macbook sounds like an awful lot of money has been spent on something less than ideal??? I have never gotten my head around the need for a laptop I have a PC that's enough for me. I take images take them home process them there.
I think Jon it might be worth when framing just move the camera down to add some extra space and will offer better options.
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Dear Jon,
Love what you captured here. Agree with going more pano, I also feel you could add more emphasis to the subject as well as reflection
Hope you have a great rest of the week,
Warmest regards,
Gabriela Plesea
I agree on the space below however it is still a wonderful result creating interesting lines and angles which definately draw the eye.
Hi Jon ... always cool to photograph Crocodiles .
I do like the good vision to the subject and for sure the reflection !!!
Comp is not ideal ... agree with the others .
To me it does look a bit " dark " overall , matter of taste ..... from my side .
Personally i would try to make the croc stand out more from the FG and BG .... albeit it might have been that flat light .
TFS Andreas
Thanks everyone I will bare in mind your comments for the next post.
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