Nikon D70sNikkor 18-200 @150mm and F/16
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There were plenty of animals out and about during last Friday's Gulf News Fun Drive rehearsal. Unfortunately most were camels, and I cannot in all conscience post a picture of a camel here, no matter how cute the young might allegedly be. There was also one sheep; someone had clearly got the flock out of there.
Anyway, here it is: two cows on the roadside, sharing what little shade is available. I have tried to tweak up the brightness so that the animals aren't in silhouette, but the background tends to blow out when I do that. I messed with the colour palette too. In the original the sand is redder, but I think this one is more pleasing to the eye. Oh, and I cropped the background crap out of the image and, as usual, reduced it to 800x600 for the InterTubes.
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Well done for not posting a camel, but surprised it's not a goat ;-)
ReplyDeleteWould have liked to see the actual cow either zoomed tighter (200mm), or wider (18mm) as an isolated subject in an expanse of sand.
It's a little bit of a bull's eye, which while the subject is a cow the composition may have worked better off set more.
I like the colour balance, not sure on what cropping you did but maybe cloning instead could have worked to keep the cows more isolated.
To deal with the brightness of the cows a bit of burning would work really well and burn the white bits.
If you don’t know how to dodge and burn :-
1- Create a new layer
2a- Use a white brush and paint over areas to brighten.
2b- You can also use a black brush on area's you want to darken.
2c- You can use a bit of gausian blur to smudge and soften everything.
3- Select blending mode "soft light"
4- Adjust the opacity of the layer to your liking.
(Appolgies if teaching grandmother to suck eggs.)
Cheers,
Richard B.
Actually, Richard, I did take one of the entire tree under which the cows were shading. Didn't like it because the animals were too titchy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the dodge and burn tips. When I've tried it previously it's more like crash and burn.