Tigers Eye
an edited down image of a beautiful animal who is staring right in to the lens
an edited down image of a beautiful animal who is staring right in to the lens
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This photo was taken at my local zoo about 30 minutes away in Blackpool, its a great local zoo where I have taken some amazing shots.Time
This was a part of a zoo visit with my beautiful girlfriends who has now become my wife it was spring (april) and just after lunch at 1300Lighting
The light was all natural and it being close to lunch was nice bright and overheadEquipment
This was shot on my Olympus OMD EM-5 shortly after it was released, I bought an old Miranda 100-300 OM camera lens and an adapter to use it on my camera which meant the focus and fstop was all manual! I had no tripod so it was all handheld and with a lens of this length I needed a fast shutter speed. I rested my elbows on the enclosure fence and opened up my aperture to focus through the fence and the tiger locked me in its vision. I snapped away knowing exactly what I wanted with half the face, a couple of shots later I had just the one I neededInspiration
Tigers are incredibly striking pictures and a photo of the face is always good but I really wanted to capture that piercing stare. tigers having rather different heads than humans to shoot a full face shot leaves you with a square photo so I decided on half the face so I could shoot it as a portrait and the eye would be bigger.Editing
as you can probably tell this is rather heavily post processed I took away all the colour apart from the eye, now Tigers eyes are not naturally so orange so there was a bit of playing with hue and saturation to get it that lovely bright shade of orange, sadly the pupil wasn't as defined as I would have liked it so it is literally drawn in with the brush!In my camera bag
My camera bag always has my Fuji X-T10 in it with its stock 16-55 mm lens, and its zoom 50-230mm. depending on the occasion it sometimes also carries the 100-400mm monster lens and the 35mm F1.4 portrait lens. There is usually more than one camera in my bag as I love using old film cameras, I have rather a lot of them, recently ive been using an LCA+ Lomography cameraFeedback
Think about the striking features of your subject and shoot your photo with it in mind. dont think your missing out by not getting in the body or the whole face in this case. work with the animal like a model but there is no direction just a lot of patience, dont get photo jealous, zoos are public areas and people will be shooting around you wait for your shot
