animals

SLAiPS · Jan 15, 2008

Wonderful! 7 and 8 the best

Lyncca · Jan 15, 2008

They are all stunning. Each has its own feel that I love. What type of lens did you use?

noob873 · Jan 16, 2008

All these were taken with Nikkor 18-200 VR.

Lyncca · Jan 16, 2008

Awesome! I ordered a 70-300 I am waiting to get so I hope to be able to accomplish something half way as good as this!

rob91 · Jan 16, 2008

I find it hard to believe this is your first time. #2 especially, but they are all incredible. National Geographic quality, or something.

noob873 · Jan 16, 2008

Lyncca said:
Awesome! I ordered a 70-300 I am waiting to get so I hope to be able to accomplish something half way as good as this!

They would probably turn out better with that lens.

rob91 said:
I find it hard to believe this is your first time. #2 especially, but they are all incredible. National Geographic quality, or something.

Haha, thanks. Yeah it was my first time taking pics of animals, Im looking into buying a little better telephoto lens and I'll go try it again.

pete1606 · Jan 16, 2008

great work,it looks like magazine pics

noob873 · Jan 16, 2008

Haha, thanks.

One thing I wasnt too sure about was that you cant see the legs in the first pic, what do you think?

KristinaS · Jan 16, 2008

I'm sorry to be the party pooper here, but I have one small critique. Some of them look a tad bit over-sharpened to me. Did you sharpen in pp? Other than that, they are very nice. I love the vibrant color of the last one, but #7 is my favorite overall.

noob873 · Jan 16, 2008

No its fine, I like getting criticism, shows me what I need to improve.

Some of them needed to be sharpened, I cant remember which ones I sharpened. When I look at these it looks like 6 and 8 might have too much. You think it would be better to have them slightly softer?

GeorgeUK · Jan 17, 2008

Great shots!

:thumbup:

How far away from the animals were you when taking these photos?

How did you get that 'all black' background? Photoshop?

noob873 · Jan 17, 2008

All of them were pretty close to me actually, besides the first one of the lions, they were kind of further away.

Not sure how to say exactly how I got the black background since Im still kind of a noob. :lol:

But I guess it would be a combination of low depth of field, and an already dark background. And of course I messed with the levels a little bit in photoshop which darkened it even more.