Good one! I'd burn in those highlights where the sun hit him, then increase the contrast in PS curves or levels. I like the framing. The knee jerk reaction would have been to crop away some of the top and the left, but I think you did well to leave a lot of context here. Paul On Feb 18, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Mark Erickson wrote:
> All, > > The family went to the zoo this morning, and I brought my *ist-Ds > and SMC-A > 70-210 F/4 kit with me. I find it really hard to get animal pics > at the zoo > that aren't obviously zoo pictures. With this one, I finally got > lucky and > got a clean shot of one of the Sumatran tigers at the zoo: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/tiger.jpg > > Photograph notes: Camera at 1/125 and ISO400, lens zoomed all the > out to > 210 and wide open at F/4. > > Getting the focus right with the 70-210 is hard! I had several > others that > were not quite in focus. Fortune smiled on me and the best > composition > ended up as the sharpest. My focus issues were probably a > combination of > the slow shutter sped and genuine focus issues. I probably should > have shot > at ISO800 and 1/250. > > There are only about 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, and > about 300 in > captivity. The pair at the Sacramento zoo just gave birth to three > male > cubs in November. > > --Mark > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
