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My sister, niece and niece's boyfriend went to a local "Safari Park" this weekend--one of those cheesy little places where you drive through and see African Kudus standing next to a regular old cow and a potbellied pig.
I called it "Safari Park of Horrors" because my niece (who was driving) and her boyfriend (who was in the front passenger seat, in charge of the food bucket) kept getting accosted by various animals that would thrust their heads into the open window and then stuck their big, slobbery, disgusting-looking tongues out in search of food--both my niece AND her boyfriend ended up screaming like a girl--more than once!
Anyway--I have quite a few pictures and will probably post a few of them later, but I wanted to start with this one, because it's different from my normal processing "style." (Though, as I mentioned in another thread--I don't think I have a style--but I do know I tend to not do much "heavy" processing. I think that's more because I'm lazy than because it's my "style.")
Immediately after being accosted by some of the larger animals, we entered this wooded area and this fellows came walking, very slowly and kinda ominously, toward us--like we'd now entered THEIR world and they were just deciding exactly what horrors awaited us.
Because of the "ominous" sense of the actual experience, and because we'd gone from a bright, sunny field to this dark woody scene quite rapidly, I just "saw" this as a darker sort of picture. So that's how I tried to process it. But since I don't really DO that (I think I've only used a vignette about three times in my life), I'm not sure if I achieved the dark, ominous scene I was after.
My *specific* questions are:
--Is it still too "bright", especially around the front animal's face?
--Did I go too heavy on the vignette? Not heavy enough?
--Is there something else I should do to create that dark, ominous feel?
Any other C&C that isn't related to my specific questions is welcome as well!
Oh, and yes, I know that I cut the rump off the one on the left. Cr*p. My excuse is, I was in a car, shooting with a 70-300 WHILE moving--I did what I could.
I called it "Safari Park of Horrors" because my niece (who was driving) and her boyfriend (who was in the front passenger seat, in charge of the food bucket) kept getting accosted by various animals that would thrust their heads into the open window and then stuck their big, slobbery, disgusting-looking tongues out in search of food--both my niece AND her boyfriend ended up screaming like a girl--more than once!
Anyway--I have quite a few pictures and will probably post a few of them later, but I wanted to start with this one, because it's different from my normal processing "style." (Though, as I mentioned in another thread--I don't think I have a style--but I do know I tend to not do much "heavy" processing. I think that's more because I'm lazy than because it's my "style.")
Immediately after being accosted by some of the larger animals, we entered this wooded area and this fellows came walking, very slowly and kinda ominously, toward us--like we'd now entered THEIR world and they were just deciding exactly what horrors awaited us.
Because of the "ominous" sense of the actual experience, and because we'd gone from a bright, sunny field to this dark woody scene quite rapidly, I just "saw" this as a darker sort of picture. So that's how I tried to process it. But since I don't really DO that (I think I've only used a vignette about three times in my life), I'm not sure if I achieved the dark, ominous scene I was after.
My *specific* questions are:
--Is it still too "bright", especially around the front animal's face?
--Did I go too heavy on the vignette? Not heavy enough?
--Is there something else I should do to create that dark, ominous feel?
Any other C&C that isn't related to my specific questions is welcome as well!
Oh, and yes, I know that I cut the rump off the one on the left. Cr*p. My excuse is, I was in a car, shooting with a 70-300 WHILE moving--I did what I could.
