Sort of reminds me of Blazing Saddles with the toll in the middle of the badlands. Here the toll taker doles out his own brand of justice for those who don't pay the freight. We obviously looked like scofflaws as he decided to try to enter the back of our vehicle about 2 minutes later. This was the closest I ever came to an needing a change of underwear on safari! Fortunately our guide was looking thru the side view mirror and saw this guy crouch down and about to leap up....don't you just hate it when the animals don't read the text book!
It was very dark...I think shot at iso 2500...next shots all needed flash!
Eric http://eyelaser.smugmug.com/Nature/Tanzania-South-Africa-2009/i-632RktN/0/X2/DSC3841-EditLionintheroad-X2.jpg
I like theme, he sure looks like he means business. (psst, low light, high ISO, move the WB slider to the right of magenta a touch, it will warm up the shot some )
Tim Kuhn wrote:
I would have taken the the fork to the right
I like theme, he sure looks like he means business. (psst, low light, high ISO, move the WB slider to the right of magenta a touch, it will warm up the shot some )
Thomas Sanders wrote:
I like the modification Eric!
Sometimes an image like this can benefit from a touch of warming filter in CS. Make sure Preserve Luminosity is checked
Tom
Thanks Tom...as you see Tim also suggested adding warmth by moving the wb slider to the right...so there is more than one way to warm a cat I guess! I guess now I have to start another file called "Tidbit nits from Tom"....awesome stuff and this is why I like the nits...how else can one get better!
Eric
Mar 30, 2012 at 10:15 AM
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eyelaser wrote:
Thanks Tom...as you see Tim also suggested adding warmth by moving the wb slider to the right...so there is more than one way to warm a cat I guess! I guess now I have to start another file called "Tidbit nits from Tom"....awesome stuff and this is why I like the nits...how else can one get better!
Eric
Nice Grab Eric and I like the fact that you not only accept nits but have friends with wit, so by extrapolation Tim and Tom are Nit Wits.... haha
Love the edits by the way!!
Lar
I have expressed that this type of exercise really can help us all be better photographers/processors and more aware of the images we are producing. So I invite all nit-ers to add their 2 cents in a CONSTRUCTIVE way to any and all of my posts. As I said in a PM to one of our members, I have enough Little League trophies for participation!
Eric
Charlie Shugart wrote:
Eric- I also like the image, and I also prefer the re-do.
As a member of the Peanut Gallery, I hesitate to add my re-do of the re-do.
But you know I'm going to. Apologies if it stinks.
I tweaked the auto color, the contrast, then isolated Leo and sharpened him a tad.
Charlie (feeling friendly but rambunctious this morning )
Thanks Charlie and all peanuts accepted. I have tried auto color and the like and sometimes it works and other times not. As far as contrast/brightness it changes the flavor of the image and makes it look more like daytime which it decidedly was not. Not to say your processing doesn't make it look fine as an isolated image but it loses that feel of evening (which I am trying to convey)...IMHO.
Thanks for chiming in...the more the better!
Eric
I believe I'm getting a bit confused
I know what you mean by trying to convey that very late afternoon lighting and I think your last re-do does the job
Socrate
I can't thank everyone enough who played this little game with me. I hope everyone got something out of it....I know I learned many lessons. If you think this type of thing is worth it maybe I will do it again with other photos and leave the file unprocessed save for the raw conversion in LR to a jpg. I will zero out all the sliders so everyone can have a chance to put there own 2 cents in. As you may have noticed by now, I have come to the realization that to improve we have to recognize and embrace the nits and that there are so many talented people on this forum that can make us better.
My hope is that the images will be at the worst properly focused so that should not be an issue but comp, sharpening/shadow adjustments, curves and some cloning/spot healing may be needed.
Unlike virtually every other photo forum I have read this one has really nice people posting and the comments and criticisms are generally delivered in a gentle and positive way...what a breath of fresh air...no competition, no bragging.
Thanks for looking and now back to our regularly scheduled program
Eric
~ Ron
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