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Postby lklint on Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:45 pm

Hi everybody,

As some people encouraged me to post more pictures, here they are.
These are also from South Africa, but of the animal side of things.
Tell me what you think :D

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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:48 pm

Lars - they are great shots - in particular the elephant. :D
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Postby Matty B on Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:54 pm

Great images lars! :D I do enjoy the sepia toned shots - please let us know how you arrived at this end result. I believe it's difficult to get an image to work in B&W format like these do so well. It's a study of eyes for mine. The mandril? profile is a fine capture too. The steely grey of the hair with the vivid green backdrop compliment each other very well to make a very easy to view image.

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Postby Marvin on Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:20 pm

I love the 2nd and 3rd images. The grass over the eye of the first image is distracting for me. I love the texture in the elephant picture. What lens are you using Lars?
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Postby lklint on Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:52 am

Matty B wrote:Great images lars! :D I do enjoy the sepia toned shots - please let us know how you arrived at this end result. I believe it's difficult to get an image to work in B&W format like these do so well. It's a study of eyes for mine. The mandril? profile is a fine capture too. The steely grey of the hair with the vivid green backdrop compliment each other very well to make a very easy to view image.

Thanks, :D


Hi Matty,

I'm not quite sure what you mean by how I arrived at the result. But we (my girlfriend and I) are using Nikon D70 (aren't we all :wink: ) with a Tamron 28-200. And then we just try to find the good pictures :lol:

But thanks for the comment. We are very proud of all the pictures we took in SA, and enjoy presenting them.

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Postby kipper on Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:04 am

I think what MattyB means is, what was your process in Photoshop, ie. what steps you took to get from the original shot to the end shot.
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Postby lklint on Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:38 pm

kipper wrote:I think what MattyB means is, what was your process in Photoshop, ie. what steps you took to get from the original shot to the end shot.


Alright, I get it now :oops: I actually didn't do anything to the pictures, except adjust the brightness in PictureProject and then alter the first two to sepia colours. Btw, the last picture is of a chacma baboon :wink:

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Postby Link on Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:43 pm

I agree with the others on the elephant picture, I like the very tight framing and the texture. Plus it looks like you've been fairly close to the elephant, that makes the image more striking! :o

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Postby lklint on Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:56 pm

Link wrote:I agree with the others on the elephant picture, I like the very tight framing and the texture. Plus it looks like you've been fairly close to the elephant, that makes the image more striking! :o

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Hi Link,

I think the distance on all three pictures was the same. Between 2 and 3 meters.
But thanks. I think it's an excellent picture too :D
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Postby Nicole on Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:01 pm

Young lions are so cute. The grass is a tad distracting but not much you can do about that sometimes. I really like the elephant shot. I'm a fan of animal pics and especially Africa!
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Postby kipper on Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:03 pm

Yeah the young lion is sweet. Couldn't really move about, I expect Mum was somewhere about :)
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