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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

Lars

Lars - they are great shots - in particular the elephant.

Great images lars! 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,

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?

Matty B wrote:Great images lars! 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,

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 ) with a Tamron 28-200. And then we just try to find the good pictures

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

Lars

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.

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 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

Lars

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!

Link

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!

Link

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

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!

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