Memphis Zoo, two one year old Giraffes interacting with each other. I used photoshop to select the subjects, inverse the selection, and used an adjustment layer to lower the background exposure until it went black.
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Canon 5D Mk IV, Canon 100 -400mm + 1.4 teleconverter = 560mm
1/400 f8.0 ISO 800
Wonderful interaction, Michael and excellent detail in the subjects. I’m not sure, but I think a touch more canvas above the ears might make the composition even better. The only processing issue I see is that your selection was slightly off on the underside of the right giraffe’s neck. I don’t know the details of your processing, but when I select the subject for something like this, I’ll copy it to a new layer, then I can do anything as sloppily as I want to the background and I won’t hurt the subject. In a case like this, I would just take the eraser tool on the subject layer and carefully remove those little extra pieces the selection picked up. If you don’t have the subject separated, a bit of careful burning to those areas should do the trick.
This is a gorgeous image. Thanks for posting to the Human and Fauna forum, and I look forward to seeing more of your work here.
Dennis, thanks for taking the time to look and comment. It pays to have some eyes on because I never noticed the selection artifact, I will fix that. Also good suggestion about more space at the top. Thanks, Michael
Sandy,
The interaction is what I love. I will look at the eyes, good suggestion. Thanks for taking the time. Michael
Sandy,
Thanks for the example. I do like the extra space around the composition. Michael
This is so precious, and would make a wonderful card. Congrats on being picked for a yearly award. I missed it when it was originally posted.
Congrats Michael–Awesome photo…Jim
