THE best wildlife photo's ive ever seen!

Some excellent photographs there.

I do feel many are slightly over processed for my tastes though. However, some are simply stunning even if it is clear that a lot of post processing time was required.
 
Seen these quite a lot now...

He claim's only basic photoshop use, toning, contrast ect. However, these are (apparently, not much info on the photographer last time I looked) all shot on a Pentax 67 with mostly a 105, but some with the 55 and 200mm lenses. (So that's basically a 28mm 50mm and 100mm lens!!) I think he takes the lens off the body to shoot and literally holds it infront of the camera. That's how he get's the tilt shift effect. Oh and his favourite 105mm lens is basically a Normal perspective lens on the M.F - imagine holding a medium format camera, lens in the other hand, attempting to move the lens to focus and shift the plane, moving the ND grad (he's a big fan of this and his red filter), trying to get a metering, framing the shot and taking the shot all within a few meters of these animals that could kill you and eat you as a snack!!!
 
Quite inspriational use of tones - amazing. As good as they are though, there's a few where I can't help but wonder what the colour version would have looked like.
 
The_Abyss said:
Quite inspriational use of tones - amazing. As good as they are though, there's a few where I can't help but wonder what the colour version would have looked like.
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I'd guess the stuff is shot in Black and White (black and White films seem a little finer grained)- if colour versions where available then they would look very red because of the red filter!!

But I agree it would be ace to see him shooting some colour stuff...
 
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p0ss3s3d said:
Seen these quite a lot now...

He claim's only basic photoshop use, toning, contrast ect. However, these are (apparently, not much info on the photographer last time I looked) all shot on a Pentax 67 with mostly a 105, but some with the 55 and 200mm lenses. (So that's basically a 28mm 50mm and 100mm lens!!) I think he takes the lens off the body to shoot and literally holds it infront of the camera. That's how he get's the tilt shift effect. Oh and his favourite 105mm lens is basically a Normal perspective lens on the M.F - imagine holding a medium format camera, lens in the other hand, attempting to move the lens to focus and shift the plane, moving the ND grad (he's a big fan of this and his red filter), trying to get a metering, framing the shot and taking the shot all within a few meters of these animals that could kill you and eat you as a snack!!!
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Talk about trying to make life difficult for yourself ! :eek:
 
p0ss3s3d said:
Seen these quite a lot now...

He claim's only basic photoshop use, toning, contrast ect. However, these are (apparently, not much info on the photographer last time I looked) all shot on a Pentax 67 with mostly a 105, but some with the 55 and 200mm lenses. (So that's basically a 28mm 50mm and 100mm lens!!) I think he takes the lens off the body to shoot and literally holds it infront of the camera. That's how he get's the tilt shift effect. Oh and his favourite 105mm lens is basically a Normal perspective lens on the M.F - imagine holding a medium format camera, lens in the other hand, attempting to move the lens to focus and shift the plane, moving the ND grad (he's a big fan of this and his red filter), trying to get a metering, framing the shot and taking the shot all within a few meters of these animals that could kill you and eat you as a snack!!!
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He's good but talented application of technique with lots of time is what this really is demonstration of. I'd have loved to see the images prior to his PS work. It states in one of the reviews that he uses a car (or sometimes on foot, but i really really doubt this) to inch as close as he can to the animals, take the shot, scans it in then goes to work on his wacom pen tablet before printing. So i'd say most of the Tilt n Shift is in post, along with high pass filters and what looks like Nik software - Silver Efex pro at a guess for the finish.

I went on safari in Kenya and Uganda and you can drive your 4x4 right up to a lion under a tree, to within a foot of it and it does not flinch, it ignores you as they are so used to it. It was alarming! Our guide explained that the practice is so common that rangers fine guides on the spot for doing it as it's not respectful of the animals welfare when getting that close, it's not natural and also disturbs their behaviour, wastes energy for them as they move away from the noise.
 
WOW !!!
Cheers for the heads up that's book marked. :cool:

Elephants are Awesome, Fact !!!
 
Oxygen said:
He's good but talented application of technique with lots of time is what this really is demonstration of. I'd have loved to see the images prior to his PS work. It states in one of the reviews that he uses a car (or sometimes on foot, but i really really doubt this) to inch as close as he can to the animals, take the shot, scans it in then goes to work on his wacom pen tablet before printing. So i'd say most of the Tilt n Shift is in post, along with high pass filters and what looks like Nik software - Silver Efex pro at a guess for the finish.

I went on safari in Kenya and Uganda and you can drive your 4x4 right up to a lion under a tree, to within a foot of it and it does not flinch, it ignores you as they are so used to it. It was alarming! Our guide explained that the practice is so common that rangers fine guides on the spot for doing it as it's not respectful of the animals welfare when getting that close, it's not natural and also disturbs their behaviour, wastes energy for them as they move away from the noise.
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I'd agree with with high pass and Nik software (not sure about the tilt shift in post but I bet there's a bit of dodging and burning on them to mess with the contrast and atmosphere of the shot.)

That's quite sad the animals are being exposed to humans so much that they now ignore them...
 
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