| Deviant Login | Shop | Join deviantART for FREE  |
Take the Tour  |
#felinefans
#Unknown-Photography
#Gallery42
| Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Wild Animals | ©2012-2013 ~Salix-Sericea |
The Journal Portal
Browse Journals |
Polls |
deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]
Keep in Touch!
|
Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
|
Sta.sh
Member of Team 21 here to give you the last Feedback within the
Alltough I think that the background is quite unusual for a Lion the similarity of the bricks colours to the fur colour gives the picture a really interesting look.
I always find it hard to photograph animals in Zoos due to the reflections on the glass or the fence wires. But this is a really good shot, there are only small hints on the left but with the blurr of the background it's nearly invisible. Very well done!
The only disturbing me a little is that his eyes look completly black. They look so empty, like he's not real. But it also gives a sense of depression to this work making me imagine how it might feel to be in a cage.
So from this point of view it is making this an excellent shot. It really depends on what you wanted to achieve with this picture.
If you didn't want for it to look this way, maybe increasing brightness and contrast a little could help. But I fear this could ruin the colours, might be worth a try though.
So since I think a lion in a zoo cage might really be depressed sometimes, all in all my opinion is that this is a wonderful portrait of a fantastic animal.
Good job! Greetings, Selunia
Another wonderful work! very cool that you got such portrait of the lion -
The only items I can critique would be that I think you could have achieved a sharper focus - and not sure if you do post processing or not - I would perhaps do a dodge and burn technique with 50% gray overlay - to dodge the eyes - and get a little more brightness in them and maybe burn a bit of the fur to give it more texture - to compensate for the lack of sharpness overall -
But having never gotten more than the back side of a lion in a shot, I think this is a wonderful job -