Hi and hello,
Dumay with his excellent post of a Nyala inspired me to try a different approach in PP.So please look carefully for the techs and make a statement.
Picture taken in Etosha at noon.
Knowing what is normally like in Etosha at noon (quiet harsh light) then this seems absolutely normal to me.
Nice portrait of a very difficult animal to capture decently, I am sure that some would suggest toning the face down a bit but it is OK for me certainly not too sharp either for web presentation.
Nice bits of typical Etosha mud as well.
I think it looks great, the detail looks good and may to your eye seem slightly over-sharp but thats probably due to the mud on the fur. Great colors, BG and you did very well to get an interesting of animal notoriously difficuilt to get a good image of.
Hi Andreas, I like the feeling to this, as the caked on mud gives some nice textures to the image and having such a simplified BKG help to separate the subject nicely.
As you know I'm off shooting again so I do need to look at colour as that is pretty spot on, but I wonder if you could coax out a tad more detail, especially in the horns, neck, bridge of the nose and the matted mud giving a bit more definition. The eye looks good to me, as is, the sharpening. Personally I know you have the palette of tools in your Workflow, plus some new ones, but based on the previous, use the new ones sparingly, if unclear I'll drop you a PM to explain. I've not added anything, just tried to extract a tad more detail from the OP via PS, perhaps somewhere between the two, just a thought?
All the best.
TFS
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Andreas - not often we see a close up of a wildebeast. Nicely done and the dirt adds an element. Good sharpness and detail (which Steve has brought out even more in his rp) and you handled the harsh light well.
I like the side-on profile here Andreas. Lovely detail and texture due to the mud. Harsh light well handled.
I felt like this could make a decent monochrome...lots of tones here to work with.
WDYT?
Hi Morkel ,
i like your attempt.But if you want to see it in monochrome-you -have to develop it.Sometimes i like BW images in nature photography,but mostly not.So the result is that i do not look in BW,and i have no skills to work on images without color.I felt all the time i am working on a lum mask when i tried to work on a BW image.
But anyway thank you all for comment
Cheers Andreas
Blue Wildebeest
) then this seems absolutely normal to me.
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